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More than ever, to the benefit of their checkbooks and their readers, crime and mystery writers work at other professions. Britain's Don Rumbelow (The Complete Jack the Ripper) is a London bobby; Los Angeles Cop Joe Wambaugh only recently quit the force. In the tradition of Erie Stanley...
Just a few days earlier, Margaret Trudeau had been sparkling at a Hollywood party with a beau, Bruce Nevins, head of the company set up to make America fizz with French Perrier water. Husband Pierre seemed the farthest thing from her mind. Not so. Last week she turned up at...
Punishments for criminals in 1776 were in theory quite severe but in practice much less so. In New York 16 crimes were punishable by death, and in Delaware 20. The great majority of convictions, however, resulted in fines or mild forms of corporal punishment-the stocks or the pillory. Banishment...
It is likely to remain so. The mood of the nation is skepticism, not credulity. The appetite for the cartoon is whetted. International and local tensions call for caricature, not portrait. Today, more than a score of editorial cartoonists answer that demand-and answer it with astonishing quality. These artists...
Unlike Nevins and Catton, Foote devotes little space to the political context of the war-the angry riptides of the 1850s, the drift into disaster. His attention is focused on the righting itself -fortifications, tactics, the strange chemistries of leadership, the workings in the generals' minds. Among other things...