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| Foreword | |
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| Appreciations | |
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| Frederic Barnes Sr. | |
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| Dorothy Lamour | |
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| Ben Hogan | |
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| Elia Kazan | |
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| Joe DiMaggio | |
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| Edward C. Banfield | |
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| Paul Coverdell | |
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| Ronald Reagan | |
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| Seth Benardete | |
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| Daniel Patrick Moynihan | |
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| Johnny Carson | |
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| John Paul II | |
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| Politics and Society | |
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| Mrs. Clinton's Very, Very Bad Book | |
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| Status-Income Disequilibrium | |
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| A Thought Experiment in Support of Estate Taxes | |
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| The Clinton Legacy | |
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| I Disonesti | |
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| Notes on the Hairless Man | |
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| The Inner History of the McCain Campaign | |
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| The Beauty of Suburban Sprawl | |
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| Gore's Spoiled Ballot | |
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| Karl Rove, White House Impresario | |
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| The Greatness That Was Giuliani | |
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| The Neoconservative Persuasion | |
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| Bush's Gospel | |
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| Fear and Intimidation at Harvard | |
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| The Great White Waste of Time | |
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| How Liberalism Failed Terri Schiavo | |
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| Peace and War at Home and Abroad | |
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| Bosnia: The Republican Challenge | |
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| Saddam Must Go | |
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| At Last, Zion | |
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| A Tale of the New China | |
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| A Cowering Superpower | |
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| The United State of America | |
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| Valor and Victimhood After September II | |
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| Liberte, Egalite, Judeophobie | |
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| A Year of Firsts and Lasts | |
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| The Fog of Peace | |
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| Liberating Iraq | |
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| The Holocaust Shrug | |
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| On Tyranny | |
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| A Realigning Election | |
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| The Middle East George W. Bush Has Made | |
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| Books and Arts | |
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| The Brilliant Show That Killed Broadway | |
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| Edward R. Murrow: Infotainment Pioneer | |
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| The New York Times Magazine at 100 | |
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| The Torture of Writer's Block | |
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| The Terrible Beauty of W. B. Yeats | |
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| What World War II Was Fought For | |
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| Updating George Washington | |
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| The Great War and Its Historians | |
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| Pro Wrestling and the End of History | |
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| The God of the Bestseller List | |
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| Rediscovering Sarah Orne Jewett | |
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| The Last Public Poet: Rereading Robert Lowell | |
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| Virgil's Aeneid-and Ours | |
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| Bob Dylan's Lyric Verse | |
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| Hawthorne and the American Past | |
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| The Trilling Imagination | |
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| Miniatures | |
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| Liberal Sports/Conservative Sports | |
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| At the Red Lobster with Tammy Faye | |
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| My Father's Mansion Has Many Holes | |
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| My Detested Fellow Pilgrims | |
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| The No-Luck Club | |
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| A Child's Christmas in Pierre | |
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| My Career in Forgery | |
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| The High School Alumni Football Tradition | |
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| The Idiocy of Rural Telephony | |
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| Self-Distraction | |
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| An Open Letter to the Maryland Office of Unemployment Insurance | |
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| Ashes to Ashes | |
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| Dog's Worst Friend | |
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| Brotherly Losers | |
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| About the Authors | |