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Frederic D. O'Brien

December 1996

13 years ago By admin

Volume

47

Issue

8

Sewall Repents Bedfellows Make Strange Politics Purple Haze Land of the Free Putsch Comes to Shove

Stories published from "December 1996"

Dubin At Work

Authored by: Jeff Kisseloff

A HALF-CENTRY AGO Harry Dubin bought his son a camera, and together they made a remarkable series of photographs of a city full of blue-collar workers—all of them Dubin

1696 Three Hundred Years Ago

Authored by: Frederic D. O'Brien

Sewall Repents

1896 One Hundred Years Ago

Authored by: Frederic D. O'Brien

Bedfellows Make Strange Politics

Time Machine

Authored by: Frederic D. O'Brien

Purple Haze

1921 Seventy-five Years Ago

Authored by: The Editors

Land of the Free

1946 Fifty Years Ago

Authored by: The Editors

Putsch Comes to Shove

I’m Sorry, Mr. President

Authored by: Richard Reeves

A VETERAN JOURNALIST reflects on how public discourse has been tarnished by the press’s relentless war against Presidents—including his own biggest offense

Stonewall Jackson’s Deadly Calm

Authored by: Robert K. Krick

COMING TO TERMS WITH THE MOST COMPELLING AND MYSTERIOUS OF CIVIL WAR HEROES

Small World

Authored by: Stuart Leuthner

ROBERT MOSES built small with the same imperial vigor as he built big, and at his behest the art of making scale-model cities reached its peak. The result still survives, and although few New Yorkers know about it, they can see their whole town—right down to their own houses or apartment buildings—perfectly reproduced.

Other Minor Miracles

Authored by: The Editors

AMERICANS have been scaling down their cities for a century and a half

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