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May 2002 Issue
May 2002 Cover
Mark Bowden, “Tales of the Tyrant”; Douglas Brinkley and Anne Brinkley, “Lawyers and Lizard-Heads”; Steve Olson, “The Royal We”; Richard Todd, “Lost in the Magic Kingdom”; Thomas Hine, “Spring Cars”; Christopher Hitchens on Kingsley Amis; fiction by Donald Hall; and much more. View Magazine
  • Governing From His Biography
    Jack Beatty
  • The Childhood of Hercules
    Guy Billout
  • Tales of the Tyrant
    Mark Bowden
  • The Merits of Meritocracy
    David Brooks
  • Tennis on the Green
    Marshall Jon Fisher
  • Gag Order
    Stephen Glain
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The Childhood of Hercules

By Guy Billout
May 2002 Issue
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The Childhood of Hercules