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December 1974 Issue
December 1974 Cover
This magazine has been fully digitized as a part of The Atlantic's archive. Each article originally printed in this magazine is available here, complete and unedited from the historical print. Read more from this magazine, or explore the full archive.
  • Lloyd Bentsen: Can Another Texan Apply?
    James Fallows
  • Badlands Revisited: A 1974 Memoir of Murderous Days in Nebraska
    Marilyn Coffey
  • On a Photograph by Emmet Gowin
    Barry Spacks
  • Moses & Memories
    Benjamin DeMott
  • Seeing Through Art
    Kenneth Baker
  • The View From the Chinaberry Tree
    James Alan McPherson
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On a Photograph by Emmet Gowin

By Barry Spacks
December 1974 Issue
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