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August 1978 Issue
August 1978 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.
  • In The Dry
    B. D'J. Pancake
  • Botswana: In the Shadow of Pretoria
    John V. H. Dippel
  • The North Dakota Plan
    John Kenneth Galbraith
  • Growing Up in the Land of Promise
    Theodore H. White
  • The Editor's Page
  • Return to the River
    David Wagoner
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Return to the River

By David Wagoner
August 1978 Issue
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