June 1976
In This Issue
Explore the June 1976 print edition below. Or to discover more writing from the pages of The Atlantic, browse the full archive.
Articles
The Heifetz Collection
In Praise of Fairy Tales
The Spectator Bird
The Hot-Blooded Dinosaurs
A River Runs Through It
Doctor Rat
Pissarro
Interview With the Vampire
Papa
Speaking of Inalienable Rights, Amy ..
A Fine Romance
McMahon's American Gardener
Böcklin
A Mantis Carol
The Medieval Health Handbook
Energy and the Earth Machine
Brussels
Delusions of Power: The Benefits, Costs, and Risks of Nuclear Energy
Supporters of the nuclear energy industry claim, “The choice right now isn’t this system or another, the choice is the system or less energy.” But to many Americans, scientists and laymen alike, a nuclear reactor is an unacceptably dangerous and expensive device.
Panama Canal
The Short War of Mr. And Mrs. Conner
High Grass Prairie
The Plains Truth: An Inquiry Into the Shaping of Jimmy Carter
Pundits ascribe the fast rise of Georgia’s presidential candidate to the rising power and acceptability of the New South, but there’s a lot of the Old South at work in the phenomenon as well. From talks with Carter, his relatives, and friends, and from visits to the candidate’s hometown, the author assembles a revealing study of the man behind the big hominy grits smile.
The Little Pub
Choosing Craft
Who Was Lyndon Baines Johnson?
“I knew from the start that I was bound to be crucified either way I moved. If I left the woman I really loved—the Great Society in order to get involved with that bitch of a war on the other side of the world, then I would lose everything at home. . . . But if I left that war and let the Communists take over South Vietnam, then I would be seen as a coward and my nation as an appeaser. . .”
Alumni News
Culture Watch
Woodward & Bernstein's Long Goodbye (Soon to Be a Film Starring...)
