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FDR’s War with Polio
Author: Geoffrey C. Ward
Have historians underestimated the importance of Roosevelt’s twenty-four-year struggle with the disease that made him a paraplegic?
Arms And The Press
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In 1983 our country went to war and left the press behind. The outcry that followed raised issues that first came up when Abraham Lincoln was President and still remain with us.
The First News Blackout
Author: Stephen W. Sears
The Civil War ignited the basic conflict between a free press and the need for military security. By war’s end, the hard-won compromises between soldiers and newspapermen may not have provided all the answers, but they had raised all the modern questions.
3.when Generals Sue
Author: Joseph H. Cooper
Westmoreland and Sharon embarked on costly lawsuits to justify their battlefield judgments. They might have done much better to listen to Mrs. William Tecumseh Sherman.
Saint-Gaudens
Author: Ruth Mehrtens Calvin
His works ranged from intimate cameos to heroic public monuments. America has produced no greater sculptor.
The Absolute All-american Civilizer
Author: Elting E. Morison
A lot of people still remember how great it was to ride in the old Pullmans, how curiously regal to have a simple, well-cooked meal in the dining car. Those memories are perfectly accurate—and that lost pleasure holds a lesson for us that extends beyond mere nostalgia.
The Oddest Of Characters
Author: Peggy Robbins
Slovenly, impulsive, impoverished, and grotesque, Constantine Samuel Rafinesque was the greatest naturalist of his age. But nobody knew it.
Breaking The Connection
Author: Peter Baida
The story of AT&T from its origins in Bell’s first local call to last year’s divestiture. Hail and good-bye.
A Wedding Album
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