February 2022

Lincoln Walks a Tightrope

lincoln with blndon
Depicitng his struggle to remain centered between radicals and conservatives on the issue of slavery, political cartoons of the era likened President Lincoln to Charles Blondin, a performer famous for his daring tightrope-walks across Niagara Falls. Harper's Weekly

Chasing History: A Kid in the Newsroom

Editor's Note: Eugene L. Meyer, a longtime Washington Post reporter and editor, is the author, most recently, of Five for Freedom: The African American Soldiers in John Brown’s Army. His own memoir is a work-in-progress and he's on a sabbatical of indefinite duration.

Next door to us, the FBI recorded the license plates of everyone entering or leaving Carl Bernstein’s house.

Journalists of my generation and acquaintance are having a memoir moment.

Peter Osnos, who covered Prince George’s County, Md. for the Washington Post before I did and went on to found PublicAffairs Books, is out with An Especially Good View: Watching History Happen.

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