… The Reminiscences of W. G. McAdoo. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. $5.00. Newton D. Baker: America at War, By … and often very effectively, the personalities and points of view of those to whom the Chief Executive … of human affairs which Mr. McAdoo constantly expresses is also an engaging quality. Mr. McAdoo leaves no doubt that he …
Fiction
… dim yellow light in the stairwell, but he was too tired to complain. While I unlocked the door to my apartment, he … couldn’t stand. It was always workingman’s silence during meals with him, but he was looking past me, as if he believed … of them dragged it by the cord, pretending it was a disobedient dog on a leash. I tried to pull Dad away, but he was …
Reporting
… attacks in Mumbai. V. “By the Grace of Allah” An Indian commando rappels from a helicopter during the final assault … blades from an MI-17 helicopter, a line of NSG commandos readied to slither down a hanging rope to the roof of Nariman … The Aftermath. Mumbai is no stranger to terror. But the 26/11 attacks—as they came to be known—set a grim new …
… put me into your straitjackets of manners! Don’t make me commendable or intelligible! Don’t make me into a … of the heart. The everyday external things of the one who died Also trouble the soul, and with a more poignant dread. Even …
… The Washington Community Revisited James Sterling Young’s Washington … boardinghouse keeper.” The congressional committee system also began to develop during this period, even though the … such semipermanent protest signs as “Live by the Bomb, Die by the Bomb,” “God Is the Absolute,” and “Arrest Me. I …
… Spring 2003 No modern scholar of the Civil War had studied the military aspects of the Fredericksburg campaign in … the fighting in the Fredericksburg campaign has more in common with modern warfare than with other Civil War … 1941—1945 , by Michael Beschloss. Simon & Schuster $26.95 Whether a particular war is just or otherwise, warfare …