August 1973

Volume 24 , Issue 5
August 1973

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Wallace Stegner

Features

The General Of General Motors

"Billy" Durant typified the courage of American business. He was charismatic, arbitrary and impenetrable.

Glenn A. Niemeyer, James J. Flink
Only One Life, But Three Hangings
George D. Vaill
Nineveh, Tyre, And…

Why study the Classics, anyway?

The Seafaring Tradition

An English artist recaptures on canvas the American ships that once ruled the seas

That Zenith Of Prairie Architecture—the Soddy

Pioneer farmers had neither wood nor brick to build with, but there sure was plenty of good earth

John I. White
The Burning Of Chambersburg
Liva Baker
The Unexpected Mrs. Stowe

Harriet Beecher Stowe, an extraordinary member of an extraordinary family, always claimed that God wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin

David McCullough
“In This Proud Land”
Nancy Wood
Men of the Revolution: Cornwallis

Courageous and resourceful, the Marquis was bred for better things than defeat at the hands of rebellious provincials.

Richard M. Ketchum
Protégé Of Cornwallis, Guest Of Washington
Robert C. Alberts
The Colossus Of His Kind: Jumbo

Pried loose from a furious Great Britain to meet a tragic death in the New World, this huge elephant made a fortune for his owner, delighted millions, and added a new superlative to our language

James L. Haley
Trenton

Fourth in a series of paintings for AMERICAN HERITAGE

Don Troiani
I Soldiered With Charlie
Philip Myers

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