Issue
December 1969, Volume 21, No.1
Featured Articles
Letters from “An American Mother”
Author: Eric Lund
A Flier’s Journal
Author: Gen. George C. Kenney
The planes were fragile and the Boche was tough, but the girls were pretty, the wine was good, and death was something that happened to someone else
1857
Author: Oliver Jensen
Is it really true that the more things change, the more they stay the same? Once upon a time, before the bureaucratic society, before modern war and technology, there was a very different world, and not so long ago. Let us revisit, picking at random, the year
The Lonely War Of A Good Angry Man
Author: David McCullough
In the hills of Kentucky a small-town lawyer named Harry Caudill battles to save his homeland from the ravages of strip mining
Catastrophe By The Numbers
Author: Charlton Ogburn, Jr.
In terms of consumption and pollution, America is the most overpopulated nation on earth. We think we can afford it—but we are leading the world to
Field Notes
Author: Elizabeth N. Layne
Conservation Equals Survival
Author: Wallace Stegner
Wise men like Thomas Jefferson have always known how to live with the earth instead of against it. We need to develop a land ethic, with wise stewardship and a respect for the earth.
The American Land As It Was
Author: Walter Karp
The Gallantry of An “Ugly Duckling”
Author: Robert L. Vargas
Outgunned by the Nazi raider, the Stephen Hopkins could have struck her colors. Instead she elected to fight
There Was A Storm Outside And A Bit Of Frost Within
Author: William Manners
(when Taft succeeded Teddy Roosevelt) (at one of the White House’s most unfortunate house parties)