<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> When Theodore Roosevelt—Harvard-educated, dandified, and just twenty-three—arrived in Albany as an assemblyman in 1882, the oldpols dismissed him as a “Punkin-Lily,”and worse. They were in for a shock.</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> He was the first Englishman to give a detailed description of the North American wilderness. Was it a pack of lies?</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> A young poet’s memories of the old rural America in whose fields he worked for two sunny months while awaiting the call to service in the First World War</span> </p>
<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">An exasperated Ralph Waldo Emerson said of his rudest, most rebellious—and most brilliant—protégé. Their turbulent relationship survived what one newspaper called “the grossest violation of literary comity and courtesy that ever passed under our notice.”</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> To mark the birthdays of our two great Presidents, a new look at the legends that surround their memory …<br />
An admiring re-appraisal of the Cherry Tree Fable and its author, by <span class="typestyle"> Garry Wills</span> , together with the<br />
Curious Story of Abraham Lincoln’s Lost Love Letters, by <span class="typestyle"> Don E. Fehrenbacher</span> </span></p>
<p><span style="background:white">To Owen Wister, the unlikely inventor of the cowboy legend, the trail rider was a survivor from the Middle Ages – “the last cavalier,” savior of the Anglo-Saxon race</span><span class="deck"> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> In a new book, the political journalist and columnist Richard Reeves retraces Alexis de Tocqueville’s remarkable 1831-32 journey through America. Reeves's conclusion: Tocqueville not only deserves his reputation as the greatest observer of our democracy—he is an incomparable guide to what is happening in our country now.</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> 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.</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">They could hardly have been more temperamentally incompatible, but the Midwestern writer Willa Cather and the crusading editor S. S. McClure enjoyed a splendid working relationship for six years and a lifetime of mutual respect</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> For almost four decades, Marshall Davidson, who pioneered a new genre of illustrated history, has worked with many thousands of pieces of American art. Out of them all he now selects fourteen images that have particularly enchanted him</span> . </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> The author of ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’ never set foot on our shores, but he had a clear and highly personal vision of what we were and what we had been</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> The work of Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald virtually defined what it meant to be American in the first half of this century</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> A gathering of little-known drawings from Columbia<br />
University’s Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library illuminates two centuries of American building</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Banished from public view in our cities, this two-hundred-year-old import is alive and well behind the scenes</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">It is the repository of the wisdom and poetry of the world. Its editor tells the story of how it came into being and how it stays there</span> . </span></p>
<p><span class="deck">When many of our greatest authors were children, they were first published in the pages of <span class="typestyle"> St. Nicholas.</span></span></p>
<p><span class="deck">He recreated with perfect pitch every tone of voice, every creak and rattle of an America that was disintegrating, even as it gave birth to the country we inhabit today.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">Many Americans, Hemingway among them, thought him a solemn prig. But Emerson’s biographer discovers a man who found strength and music in the language of the streets.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">The urge to create literature was as strong in the mid-1800s as it is today, but rejections were brutal and the pay was even worse.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">A new novel about Lincoln examines questions about civil liberties in wartime, staff loyalties and disloyalties, and especially, Lincoln’s priorities</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">George Templeton Strong was not a public man, and he is not widely known today. But, for 40 years, he kept the best diary, in both historic and literary terms, ever written by an American.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">The modern city plays host to conventions and tourists, but it still retains the slightly racy charm that has always made it dear to its natives.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">A life-long student of military history and affairs says that nuclear weapons have made the idea of war absurd. And it is precisely when everyone agrees that war is absurd that one gets started.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">He was a capitalist. He was an urban reformer. He was a country boy. He was “Comrade Jesus,” a hardworking socialist. He was the world’s first ad man. For a century and a half, novelists have been trying to recapture the “real” Jesus.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">It’s never a bad thing question how well you’re doing; the problem is to find a judicious observer who is determined neither to flatter, nor to condemn.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">30 years ago, John Howard Griffin, a white Texan, became an itinerant Southern black for four weeks. His account of the experience, "Black like Me," galvanized the nation.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">What seemed to be just another tempest in the teapot of academia has escalated into a matter of national values and politics. Who would have believed that the choice of which books Stanford University students must read would create so much tumult? And that the controversy goes back so far?</span></p>
