In his 1994 survey of Lincoln in American Memory, Merrill D. Peterson identified five themes which have summed-up the meaning of Abraham Lincoln for Americans since Lincoln’s death in 1865. Those five themes hold little surprise—Lincoln as Savior of the Union, Lincoln as the Great Emancipator, Lincoln as the Man of the People, Lincoln as
It’s hard to write a good oral history. The stop-start nature of the form makes it difficult to develop a narrative, and also the sometimes-uneven rhythm impedes the author’s ability to develop a larger message. Studs Terkel’s Hard Times is usually considered one of the best of the genre. It succeeded because the book used
Like countless homeowners, John Durnell of Missouri used a popular herbicide to keep his home and community free from unwanted weeds. He used the chemical from the 1990s until 2018, when he developed non-Hodgkin lymphoma, a diagnosis he blames on an ingredient known as glyphosate in his Roundup weed killer. We had a problem loading
Like countless homeowners, John Durnell of Missouri used a popular herbicide to keep his home and community free from unwanted weeds. He used the chemical from the 1990s until 2018, when he developed non-Hodgkin lymphoma, a diagnosis he blames on an ingredient known as glyphosate in his Roundup weedkiller. We had a problem loading this
REVIEW: ‘Cave Mountain: A Disappearance and a Reckoning in the Ozarks’ by Benjamin Hale In 2001, six-year-old Haley Zega got lost on a family hike in the Arkansas wilderness. She was found after three days where she survived drinking river water. Now there’s a book about it. What does it take to be a book?
CAL DOGE director Jenny Rae Le Roux slams Gov. Newsom and AG Bonta, alleging they failed to crack down on widespread fraud across California programs.
For wayward souls craving a dose of old-school, real-deal country music, there’s an obscure but surefire remedy, a 1973 low-budget cult movie called Payday. It stars wild-man actor Rip Torn in a career performance as Maury Dann, a pill-popping, pistol-toting, whiskey-swigging country singer with scimitar sideburns and a bad attitude working his way down the