LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Letters To The Editor

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August 1970

13 years ago By admin

Volume

21

Issue

5

POLLUTING THE PRESTILE MR. GRAHAM REPLIES DELEHANTY’S FINEST GROWING PAINS WRECKERS’ LOSSES A PLEA FOR RESTRAINT JUVENES DUM SUMUS

Stories published from " August 1970 "

The Thankless Task Of Nicholas Trist

Authored by: Richard M. Ketchum

You are conducting secret peace talks with the enemy in the midst of an unpopular and interminable foreign war. The American field commander is throwing every obstacle in your path. Then, just as the talks are getting somewhere, the President orders you home. What do you do now?

The American Heritage Society Awards

Authored by: The Editors

ANNOUNCING THE WINNERS

"Rebels, Turn Out Your Dead!—"

Authored by: Arthur B. Tourtellot

Death, hunger, disease, and suffering from bitter cold or sweltering heat were common experiences on the dozen British prison ships in New York harbor during the Revolution.

Graven Images

Authored by: Avon Neal

Sermons in Stones

The Case of the Disappearing Cook

Authored by: Mark Sufrin

Why did people fall mortally ill wherever she worked? Typhoid Mary was not about to help the inspector find out

A Clean Break With The Past

Authored by: John Brooks

“In terms of change in American attitudes and American values, these last five years have surely been the crucial ones in the quarter century since V-J Day. And these changes seem of such a magnitude that every American except the very young, the very empty, and the very enclosed must now, to some extent, feel himself a foreigner in his native land”

How To Run An Empire

Authored by: Jonathan Aitken

From John Bull to Uncle Sam:

Aunt Clara’s Luminous World

Authored by: John Graves

The “memory paintings” of a lady now ninety-four celebrate the life of rural Texas as it was when she grew up there

Our Last Great Wilderness

Authored by: Walter Sullivan

America’s greed for oil has drastically upset the ecological balance of Alaska’s North Slope, and the end is not in sight