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...also drafted a corps, made up of contributors who have a longtime affinity for the story. Novelist Walter Kirn, who lives near the Yellowstone River, which Clark traveled on his homeward trip, writes for us about the tale's creation of a kind of utopian ideal for America's journey through history. Author Landon Jones, a former Time Inc. magazine editor who is making a second career out of his fascination with the explorers (he also serves as a director of the National Council of the Lewis and Clark Bicentennial), gives us a profile of the co-captains, showing...
...House Un-American Activities Committee. And so the cold war's First Battle of Bull Run began, eventually producing divisions in America almost as dramatic as the racial ones. That word indivisible is a handsome thought, which we rally to in wartime and generally preserve as an ultimate ideal, but it has rarely described American history as it is enacted on the ground. America is more interesting than the pietisms it lavishes upon itself...
...August 25, Oxford University will publish "Restoration of the Republic: The Jeffersonian Ideal in 21st-Century America" by former Senator Gary Hart. Says Kirkus, "Scholarly dissertation meets populist manifesto in politico Hart's case for increased citizen involvement in government...Despite some pie-in-the-sky elements, the argument merits discussion, and the prescriptions are delivered coherently and effectively...
...approach of the Fourth of July and the influx of summer tourists to D. C.—generally a highly patriotic group of people to start with—should have caught the eye of the Smithsonian as the ideal audience for a commemorative exhibit. Admittedly, the American public does have a short attention span, but nothing could be more appropriate to give a high priority to than to memorialize the victims and heroes of Sept. 11. Beginning with this show would have been an excellent start...
Though he has worked behind numerous other bars, including Hard Rock Cafe Boston and Redline during the last year, he says Grafton is is most ideal...