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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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THE SCRAPBOOK
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THE SCRAPBOOK Obama’s Extremely Well-Hidden Hand Putting the best possible light on the Obama presidency has been a challenge for journalists, and most have risen to the challenge, with...
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CASUAL
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CASUAL The Birds I woke this morning to the gentle coo of a mourning dove on my windowsill. The gentle coo, the mellifluous murmur. You know that sound—mourning doves are everywhere in this...
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EDITORIALS
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EDITORIALS The Rodney Dangerfield House Republicans House Republicans don’t get no respect. Has there been in recent times a more derided, mocked, and pitied bunch? Establishment types...
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OUT OF CONTROL?
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WARREN, MICHAEL
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Out of Control? What Eliot Spitzer plans to do if he wins. BY MICHAEL WARREN It’s surprising when a candidate for offi ce tells you exactly what he’ll do if elected. It’s even more surprising...
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AMERICA AND ITS IMMIGRANTS
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BARNES, FRED
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America and Its Immigrants A hate-love relationship. BY FRED BARNES Concern over surges of immigration by unfamiliar groups is a hardy perennial of American history: Scotch-Irish...
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NIXON AND ALL THAT JAZZ
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FERGUSON, ANDREW
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Nixon and All That Jazz Leonard Garment, 1924-2013 BY ANDREW FERGUSON It’s a thankless job, being a political aide. Your every prerogative and responsibility derives like planetary light from...
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CAN REPUBLICANS SHAPE THE AGENDA?
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COST, JAY
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Can Republicans Shape the Agenda? Not without winning in 2016. BY JAY COST In The Semi-Sovereign People, political scientist E. E. Schattschneider asked the question: Of all the potential...
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A TALE OF TWO TRIALS
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ALLEN, CHARLOTTE
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A Tale of Two Trials Zimmerman acquitted by a jury—convicted by the media. BY CHARLOTTE ALLEN The trial of George Zimmerman over the shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin was actually...
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FARM BILL FIASCO
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Moylan, Andrew
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Farm Bill Fiasco Big Ag’s big subsidies. BY ANDREW MOYLAN With this month’s passage of a farm bill that doles out tens of billions of dollars in subsidies to agribusiness interests,...
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BODIES AT AN EXHIBITION
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GUTMANN, ETHAN
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Bodies at an Exhibition New questions about the origins of the plastinated human specimens now touring the world BY ETHAN GUTMANN I have taken my fi rst steps into “Body Worlds,” an exhibition...
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BIRDMAN OF AMERICA
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Irmscher, Christoph
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Birdman of America Before Audubon, there was Alexander Wilson. BY CHRISTOPH IRMSCHER For years now, I have been showing the gorgeous four volumes of Audubon’s Birds of America to visitors...
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AN END IN SIGHT
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LANKFORD, NELSON D.
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An End in Sight The final act of the war against Hitler in the West. BY NELSON D. LANKFORD After fi ve years of war, the battered cities and towns of Great Britain, frayed but unbroken, took...
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LAUGHING LAST
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Heaton, Michael
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Laughing Last How yesterday’s insurgents became today’s Establishment. BY MICHAEL HEATON In the beginning, there was the Harvard Lampoon. And it was good. And the Harvard Lampoon begat the...
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LIGHTS OF PHILADELPHIA
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ALLITT, PATRICK
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Lights of Philadelphia Benjamin Franklin introduces the modern world to the New World. BY PATRICK ALLITT Benjamin Franklin is a biographer’s dream. Successful, long-lived, articulate,...
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BASES LOADED
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Bowman, James
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Bases Loaded The smooth moves, and rough edges, of baseball’s infancy. BY JAMES BOWMAN Much has been written about the origins and earliest years of baseball, and much, much more has been...
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GOD HELPS US
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MCKENZIE, WILLIAM
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God Helps Us America remains as religious as you thought. BY WILLIAM MCKENZIE You may have read about the rise in the number of Americans who claim no religious affi liation, making you think...
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THIS AMERICAN WORLD
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Short, Edward
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This American World The 'last, best hope of earth' goes global. BY EDWARD SHORT If one thing distinguishes all of Conrad Black’s books, from his brilliant biographies of Franklin Roosevelt and...
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PRECIOUS STUFF
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Achorn, Edward
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Precious Stuff Every souvenir tells a story worth hearing. BY EDWARD ACHORN A few years ago, I found the scorecard my grandfather had kept of a September 16, 1904, doubleheader he attended at...
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TRAITOR IN EMBRYO
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AIKMAN, DAVID
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Traitor in Embryo A famous spy’s first steps toward betrayal. BY DAVID AIKMAN It will probably never be known how many people died because they were betrayed by Kim Philby to the NKVD, or its...
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LISTEN TO LINCOLN
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London, Herbert I.
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Listen to Lincoln A voice from the past articulates the future. BY HERBERT LONDON There is a discredited biological theory—“ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny”— which suggests that the stages...
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DIVINE DEDUCTION
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BREEN, JON L.
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Divine Deduction Christian crime fiction comes of age. BY JON L. BREEN Houston detective Roland March is in many ways a typical police procedural protagonist. He’s a troubled big city cop...
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MISS BENNET'S ANNIVERSARY
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Yoder, Edwin M. Jr.
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Miss Bennet’s Anniversary How to celebrate the bicentennial of ‘Pride and Prejudice.’ BY EDWIN M. YODER JR. Visitors guided to Jane Austen’s handsome burial marker in Winchester Cathedral, as...
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PARODY
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PARODY “Keith Olbermann, the fiery television anchor who has made a contentious exit from nearly every network he’s worked for, is reportedly returning to the place where he launched his career:...
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