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The FDR tapes: the story behind secret recordings made in the Oval Office during the autumn of 1940, plus transcripts of five private presidential conversations / R.J.C. Butow --The amorous art of Esther Howland: America's enterprising mistress of the valentine / Joan P. Kerr -- A painter at war: the World War II combat art of Albert K. Murray -- Opening China: once again, Americans are learning the delicate art of trading with the biggest market on earth. Here's how they did it the first time / Oscar V. Armstrong -- The social evil ordinance: more than a century ago, the city of St. Louis enacted a well-thought-out plan to legalized vice. What went wrong? / James Wunsch -- American characters: William S. Devery / Richard F. Snow -- The terrible odyssey of Howard Blackburn: a survivor's account of extraordinary endurance at sea -- Celebrities: the story of a magazine born eighty years too soon -- Between the battles: far from home and in the face of every kind of privation, the Civil War soldier did his best to recreate the world he left behind him -- A heritage preserved: memory's storehouse: the National Museum of American History / T.H. Watkins

"The miraculous care of providence": on the 250th anniversary of his birth, a look at the series of narrow escapes that allowed George Washington to become our first president / James Thomas Flexner -- Congo square: an inquiry into the origins of our greatest indigenous art: jazz / Frederick Turner -- Now and then: precursors of the Moral Majority / Martin E. Marty -- The ursuline outrage: in the shadow of Bunker Hill, bigots perpetrated an atrocity that showed a shocked nation that the fires of the Reformation still burned in the new world / Carmine A. Prioli -- Lincoln's life preserver: in his lifelong battle with despair, the president relied on a sense of humor that was rich, self-deprecating: and surprisingly bawdy / Charles B. Strozier -- Reader's album: past tents

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