October 1969

In This Issue
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Articles
The Fight for the President's Mind—And the Men Who Won It
Who got us into Vietnam? There is no way to say fairly now, for the responsibility is shared. Who Stopped the escalation? That story can be told.
Our Friend Pasquale
The War at Home
Talk of a Sad Town
Mirage-Seekers
The Peripatetic Reviewer
Theater: A Mod Hamlet
Music: The Brooklyn Eagle
Short Reviews: Books
Fifteen brief book reviews
Fiji
Nigeria and Biafra
Okinawa
Washington
Correction
Looking for the Buckhead Boys
Ignorant Armies
Admal
The Great Baldini: A Memoir and a Collaboration
The Oakland 7
“I wonder what the prosecution would have made of the Boston Tea Party,” said one of the jurors who refused to convict seven young men accused of conspiracy in connection with Oakland’s “Stop the Draft Week.” Here is the story of that trial and a painstaking examination of the verdict it produced.
The Young and the Old
Notes on a New History, Part II
Korea
The Colonel
