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October 1999

14 years ago By admin

Volume

50

Issue

6

Editor in Chief Driving Blind

Stories published from "October 1999"

1924 Seventy-five Years Ago

Authored by: Frederic D. O'Brien

The Galloping Ghost and the Four Horsemen

1774 Two Hundred And Twenty-five Years Ago

Authored by: Frederic D. O'Brien

Think Continentally, Act Locally

The Cold War Through the Looking Glass

Authored by: Sergei Khrushchev

Nikita Khrushchev’s son recalls a world in which the United States was the Evil Empire, and the Soviet superpower was a carefully maintained illusion.

Is Our Civic Life Really in Decline?

Authored by: Michael Schudson

VOTER TURNOUT MAY BE DOWN IN RECENT YEARS, BUT THE INVOLVEMENT OF THE COMMON CITIZEN HAS GROWN TO FAR SURPASS ANYTHING THE FOUNDING FATHERS EVER DREAMED OF.

The Sporting Life of Roger Khan

Authored by: Nathan Ward

The author of America’s best-loved baseball book speaks of his days as a reporter, of his time (unique among sportswriters) owning a team, and of his latest subject, Jack Dempsey, whose violent career he uses to illuminate an era.

Beautiful, Historical Missoula

Authored by: Fred Haefele

Nourished by powerful rivers and an equally powerful sense of its past, a town of cowhands and poets and bikers and professors distills the whole history of the American West - its hope and rapacity, its calamities and triumphs. Fred Haefele makes clear why our third annual American Heritage Great American Place Award goes to…

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