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The Art of Biography No. 7
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“Even poverty is ancient history”: Resurrection City, 1968
By Jill FreedmanNow out in its fiftieth-anniversary edition, Jill Freedman’s Resurrection City documents the culmination of the Poor People’s Campaign of 1968, organized by Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and carried out u…
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Why I Am Not a Buddhist
By Molly PeacockI love desire, the state of want and thought / of how to get; building a kingdom in a soul / requires desire. I love the things I’ve sought—
From the Archive, Issue 112
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Postcards from the Propaganda Front
By Spencer Bokat-LindellFor most of human history, transmitting an image quickly and across long distances was either costly or impossible. Enter, at the turn of the twentieth century, the humble postcard: cheap to produce, widely available, and inexpensive to buy and ma…
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Circle of Friends: An Interview with Lady Diana Cooper
By Shusha GuppyLady Diana Cooper was hom in 1892, daughter of the 7th Duke of Rutland. Her mother, Violet Lindsay, was a PreRaphaelite artist and beauty, and the granddaughter of the 24th Earl of Crawford.
From the Archive, Issue 88
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Ike and Nina
By T. Coraghessan BoyleThe years have put a lid on it, the principals passed into oblivion. I think I can now, in good conscience, reveal the facts surrounding one of the most secretive and spectacular love affairs of our time: the affaire de coeur that linked the thirty-fourth president of the United States and the then first lady of the Soviet Union.
From the Archive, Issue 85
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