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December 1987 Issue
December 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.
  • What Coltrane Wanted: The Legendary Saxophonist Forsook Lyricism for the Quest for Ecstasy
    Edward Strickland
  • New York in the Eighties
    Nicholas Lemann
  • Before Pickett Charged
    Tom Wicker
  • The Mystery of the Bayeux Tapestry
    Phoebe-Lou Adams
  • Lindbergh's Son
    Phoebe-Lou Adams
  • Rebels From West Point
    Phoebe-Lou Adams

Breaking:Manhattan grand jury indicts former President Donald Trump

Acrostic No. 29

By Dorothy Osborne
December 1987 Issue
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