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… but equally potent founding myths. In one, William Randolph comes from nowhere, has no money, arrives with only an axe … very height of the Middle Ages, when knights wore their ladies’ favors on their helmets and went out to tilt in their … instance, that Richmond and El Cerrito, California, were endpoints on one fork of the Great Migration; that the …

… The great historian and civil-rights activist Howard Zinn died on Wednesday at the age of 87; so too did the author  … J.D. Salinger , a phantom for decades, passed away, and the coming years surely will bring rafts of rumor, speculation, … off a good chunk of its corporate staff . And there were false births and false deaths, endings or beginnings not …

… is all too aware of the traps, Satanic and otherwise, that come with the territory of a book out to explain how it is … about the “banality of evil”] to scores of millions who died at their hands. What does it mean to say that the … lost whatever authenticity might have existed in the originals. As for the satanic, it seems destined to abide among us …

… mind strays. Today he talks about friends who’ve died, relatives long gone. In a photograph he points out which ones are dead now. “But you and Lester … them, and I will never find my way back home. 7. Night comes down, the winter sky momentarily ecstatic, then …

… editorial writer in the South” (1922) and “one of the most competent newspaper men in America” (1932). Virginius Dabney … and conscience of our time” (1960). Outliving Mencken (died 1956) by 24 years, Johnson came to be regarded not only … Journal of Social Forces (1923) led to the invitation in 1926 to join Mencken and the staff of the Baltimore Evening …