<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> How a young New York society matron named Alice Shaw dazzled English royalty with her extraordinary embouchure</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> After two false starts, the B-17s got through. A pilot relives the 8th Air Force’s first successful daylight raid on the German capital</span> . </span></p>
<p><span class="deck">Just before the American Revolution, the flight of British subjects to the New World forced a panicky English government to wrestle with this question.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> An outstanding American historian follows Winston Churchill through a typical day during his political exile in the 1930s and uses that single twenty-four-hour period to reveal the character of the century’s greatest Englishman in all its complexity. See Churchill lay bricks, paint a landscape, tease his dinner guests, badger his secretaries, dictate a history, make up a speech, write an article (that’s how he earns his living), refuse his breakfast because the jam has been left off the tray, refight the Battle of Bull Run, feed his fish, drink his brandy, fashion a “bellyband” to retrieve a particularly decrepit cigar, recite all of “Horatius at the Bridge,” take two baths—and await with noisy fortitude the day when he will save the world.</span> </p>
<p><span class="deck"> Within the city’s best-known landmarks and down its least-visited lanes stand surprisingly vivid mementos of our own national history</span> </p>
<p><span class="deck">The American newspaper: beleaguered by television, hated both for its timidity and its arrogance, biased, provincial, overweening, and still indispensable. A Hearst veteran tells how it got to where it is today, and where it may be headed.</span></p>
