May 1976
In This Issue
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Articles
Two Good Old-Fashioned Young Novelists
Bloodshed and Three Novellas
The Modernization of Sex
Dream Children
Virginia Woolf and Her World
Jonathan Swift
Half a Marriage
The Archaeology of North America
The Trenton Pickle Ordinance
A Prince of Our Disorder
Heat and Dust
The Bride Price
Lost Profile
Cataract
The Olive of Minerva or the Comedy of a Cuckold
Eaters of the Dead
Growing Up in Hollywood
Fabllous Beasts and Demons
Jessica Fayer
Untitled
South Korea
Lighting the Candles
Who Was Lyndon Baines Johnson?
“Do you have a lot of energy?" the thirtysixth President of the United States asked a young winner of the White House Fellowship. “It’s important for me to know.”LBJ was looking for a confidante with the endurance to hear and interpret some of his deepest secrets, fiercest convictions, and haunting dreams as he came to the lonesome end of a career that changed history. That confidante was Doris Kearns, twenty-four when she went to work at the White House in 1968. and now a professor of government at Harvard. “Who Was Lyndon Baines Johnson?" will appear in this and next month’s Atlantics. It is drawn from Ms. Kearns’s forthcoming book, Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream.
The Editor's Page
The Retrieval System
Washington
Storm
The barometer was holding steady at 30.2—like a lot of other things on the boat, it didn’t work—as the thirty-six-foot cutter Flying Cloud sailed into Hurricane Amy.
Village Wine
Immersion
The Fine Art of Travel
Oh, to be in England, France. Italy, Greece, and any number of other places, now that spring is there.
Success Is Not a Destination but the Road to It
Bittner, Lp Guru, Names Goals
Les Fauves
Dying Into Life
