January 1990
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Articles
The In-Box President
George Bush is a master of an unheroic politics in which everything, or almost everything, is negotiable
The Book on Miles
In his autobiography, the trumpeter Miles Davis proves to be his own most perceptive critic.
The Snows of Yesteryear
The Devil's Mode
The Hone & Strong Diaries of Old Manhattan
The Nature Notes of an Edwardian Lady
King of the Road
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
At the Court of Napoleon: Memoirs of the Duchesse d'Abrantès
Word Histories: Etymologies Derived From the Files of the Dictionary of American Regional English
The January Almanac
That's Life: An Obscure Newsletter Is Devoted to Stories That Are Strange but True
Conventional Warfare
Third World conflicts and the lessons of vietnam are entering the curriculum of the Army War College, but the focus is still on Europe
745 Boylston Street
The Man With All the Answers
The economist Lester Thurow, the dean of MIT’s Sloan School of Management, is on a crusade to rescue American capitalism from itself
Pictures of the Ice
Austin, his parish believed, was going to retire to Hawaii, with a new wife and wardrobe. But life, as he liked to say, has its surprises
Grey Owl
He became famous as a half-Scot, half-Apache defender of wildlife, and some believe he should rank with John Muir and Rachel Carson in the environmentalists’ pantheon. But he was not exactly what he seemed
The Report
Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler
Modem Classics: Allan Greenberg's Houses Reflect a Revival of the Classical Tradition
Strangers in Paradise: The Innocent Bliss of a Malaysian Vacation
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