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September 1994 Volume 45, Issue 5

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October 1973

Nation of Gamblers

I‘m dad-gum disgusted at trying to police every half-square and every half-house,” Sen. Huey Long told a radio audience in Louisiana in May 1935. “You can’t close gambling nowhere where the people want to gamble.”

Dozens of casinos in St. Bernard and Jefferson parishes reopened the next day, after a nearly five-month hiatus.

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A SIGNATURE ON THE LAND

Aldo Leopold not only gave the wilderness idea its most persuasive articulation; he turned the entire history of land use on its head.

by T. H. Watkins

MAKE-BELIEVE BALLROOM

A veteran roadhouse musician of the 1930s recalls the everyday courage of a threadbare generation.

by Wilbur Devereux Jones

REVISING THE T1WENTIETH CENTURY

Great struggles have always been followed by tides of revulsion; another may be on its way.

by John Lukacs

… LOVE, JACKIE

The Johnsons and the Kennedys are popularly thought to have shared a mutual dislike. It’s not true at all.

by Carl Sferrazza Anthony

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

AMERICAN MADE

MY BRUSH WITH HISTORY

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