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Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. The magazine is spotless inside and out. Very slight wear to edges of covers and spine. Covers and pages show a few mild bends or creases to corners. Very little wear otherwise. The magazine will be packed with a backing card, bubble-wrapped and shipped in a sturdy, flat box to ensure safe transit. This issue includes: "The Forty-Year Run" (William Randolph Hearst spent most of his life trying to be President) by Roy Hoopes; "Presidents on Presidents" (They've all had things to say about their fellow Chief Executives--few flattering) by Thomas Fleming; "Lost in Space: What Went Wrong with NASA?" (How we put a man on the moon and then started following a false star) by T. A. Heppenheimer; "The Lost City" (New Yorkers get on with their lives in a town whose high, iron temper confers something of the heroic on the least of its residents) by Ira Meistrich; "Search and Destroy" (The government so thoroughly confiscated these Civil War-era photos that they didn't resurface for more than a century) by John A. Martini; "Into the Face of History" (Starting with a single, haunting battlefield image, an amateur photo detective managed to reconstruct a forgotten photographer's life and uncover a treasure of Indian portraits) by James S. Brust, M.D.; "The Scene of the Crime" (Long-lost views of sunny, easy days at a wealthy lake resort foreshadow a terrible tragedy) by Charles Guggenheim; plus "Letter from the Editor"; "Correspondence"; "The Life and Times"; "The Business of America"; "In the News"; "History Happened Here"; "American Made"; "My Brush with History"; "The Time Machine"; and "Editors' Bookshelf".

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. No Jacket. 128 pp. : illustrations ; 29 cm ; ISSN: 1040-5992; National Library: 017832071; 1269901-9; 011761186; LCCN: 89-647289 ; sn 88-2523 ; LC: D25; Dewey: 904/.7/05 ; OCLC: 18462176 ; black cloth with tipped on color illustration ; no dustjacket ; Contents: The origins of war / Robert L O'Connell - Not strategy, not tactics / Victor Davis Hanson - The Bulge / Stephen E. Ambrose - The horse in War : A special section - The ineffable union of man and woman / David Quammen - En Avent! / Ira Meistrich - Civil War cavalry : Missed opportunities / Pady Griffith - The Pequot Massacres / Neil Aster Silberman - Intimidation by reputation / Byron Byron Farwell - Gamblers ont he Turkish brink / David Fromkin - The man of silence / Caleb Carr - In praise of the F4U / Geoffrey Norman ; FINE. Book.