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The practical methodologies evolved over many years, and were largely the work of John Hall, a gunsmith from Portland, Maine, and inventor of the “Hall carbine” that became notorious when muckrakers dug into the youthful Pierpont Morgan’s dealings with Civil War procurement authorities.
Charles R. Morris • The Tycoons: How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy
Throughout the 1950s, Havana served as “a hedonistic playground for the world’s elite,” filled with gambling joints, jazz, and brothels, moneyed by the mob, politicians, and aristocrats. The playwright Arthur Miller described Batista’s Cuba in The Nation as “hopelessly corrupt, a Mafia playground, [and] a bordello for Americans and other
... See moreImani Perry • South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
“I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but by blood”—his last words before execution were recorded, and, as has often been noted, they were prophetic. But they were also only partly true. Certain crimes were ceased by the Civil War, but they have not been purged. Not yet. Harpers Ferry is
... See moreImani Perry • South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
1967.03 Lower Manhattan Expressway — Paul Rudolph Institute for Modern Architecture
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