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August 1981 Issue
August 1981 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.
  • The Last of the Pure Baseball Men
    Michael Lenehan
  • In Praise of Dispraise
    James Atlas
  • The Ultimate Toy
    Tracy Kidder
  • Hanoi: The Problems of Peace
    Stanley Karnow
  • On Chekhov
    Vladimir Nabokov
  • During the War
    Marvin Bell

Hanoi: The Problems of Peace

Vietnam finds that waging war was simple compared with running an economy

By Stanley Karnow
August 1981 Issue
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