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February/March 1983

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Volume

34

Issue

2

1783 Two Hundred Years Ago 1883 One Hundred Years Ago 1908 Seventy-five Years Ago

Stories published from "February/March 1983"

Fear Of The City 1783 To 1983

Authored by: Alfred Kazin

The city has been a lure for millions, but most of the great American minds have been appalled by its excesses. Here an eminent observer, who knows firsthand the city’s threat, surveys the subject.

Ouija

Authored by: James P. Johnson

In 1913 the Ouija board dictated a novel. Twenty years later it commanded a murder. It is most popular in times of national catastrophe, and it’s selling pretty briskly just now.

Earthquake

Authored by: The Editors

An all-but-forgotten San Francisco photographer has left us a grand and terrible record of the destruction and rebirth of an American city

How The Media Seduced And Captured American Politics

Authored by: Richard C. Wade

A noted historian argues that television, a relative newcomer, has nearly destroyed old—and valuable—political traditions

City Lights

Authored by: Edward Sorel

The decline and fall of the lamppost

“If I Had Another Face, Do You Think I'd Wear This One?”

Authored by: Harold Holzer

…so Lincoln joked. Actually he was eager to pose for portraits.

Two Years In Kansas

Authored by: Warren P. Trimm

To get started as a prairie homesteader in the 1870s you needed uncommon reserves of strength, sanity, courage, and luck. Trimm had the first three.

Artists In Their Studios

Authored by: Lois Dinnerstein

As painting became a respectable profession in America, artists began to celebrate their workplaces

FDR A Practical Magician

Authored by: John Kenneth Galbraith

Fifty years ago this March, Roosevelt took the oath of office and inaugurated this century’s most profound national changes. One who was there recalls the President’s unique blend of ebullience and toughness.

William James Finds His Vocation

Authored by: Jacques Barzun

One of America s truly great men—scientist, philosopher, and literary genius—forged his character in the throes of adversity

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