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July/August 1994 Volume 45, Issue 4

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First Step to the Moon

THE SHRILL RINGING WOKE ME from deep sleep early in the morning of April 12, 1961. I was confused for a moment, but only a moment. I was in my room in the Holiday Inn at Cocoa Beach, Florida.

I reached for the clamoring telephone.

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THE WARFARE STATE

Searching across two centuries to discover the main engine of our government’s growth.

by Bruce D. Porter

THE WATER IN WHICH YOU SWIM

An interview with William Ferris, connoisseur and chronicler of everything Southern.

by Willie Morris

NUREMBERG, TIME AND MEMORY

Justice served nearly fifty years ago still casts its light and shadow over much of the world.

by Joseph E. Persico

DUESENBERG

Simply the greatest automobile ever made in the United States.

by Brock Yates

CITY STATION

The trains don’t come here anymore —but the crowds still do.

LETTER FROM THE EDITOR

CORRESPONDENCE

THE LIFE AND TIMES

by Geoffrey C. Ward

THE BUSINESS OF AMERICA

by John Steele Gordon

IN THE NEWS

by Bernard A. Weisberger

HISTORY HAPPENED HERE

MY BRUSH WITH HISTORY

EDITORS’ CHOICE

AMERICAN CHARACTERS

by Gene Smith

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