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November 1987 Issue
November 1987 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.
  • William Dean Howells and the Brahmins
    Edward Sorel and Nancy Caldwell Sorel
  • Sons of Devils
    Robert D. Kaplan
  • A Damaged Culture
    James Fallows
  • The Exiles
    Ernst Havemann
  • Fat Pride: Fat Isn't "In" but It's Not So "Out" as It Used to Be
    Holly Brubach
  • The Risks of Risk Studies: It Is Too Easy to Draw Alarming Conclusions From Epidemiologic Reports
    Ellen Ruppel Shell

How the Gold War Might End

Thinking through a question that has suddenly become something more than an escapist fantasy

By John Lewis Gaddis
November 1987 Issue
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