Issue

February/March 1983, Volume 34, No.2


Featured Articles

Mother And Son

Author: Malcolm Cowley

Earthquake

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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

Author: Richard C. Wade

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

City Lights

Author: Edward Sorel

The decline and fall of the lamppost

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

Author: Harold Holzer

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

Two Years In Kansas

Author: 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

Author: Lois Dinnerstein

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

FDR A Practical Magician

Author: 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

Author: Jacques Barzun

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