Harper's Magazine: August 1969

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August 1969

CONTENTS
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	Photo [Cover art] By Leonard Soned (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Bumper stickers PDF IMAGES
4	About this issue/Article About this issue By Willie Morris SEE ALSO: Career in criticism; Contribution to Richard Nixon's campaign for president, 1968; Bazelon, David T.; McGinniss, Joe; Hollander, John; Magid, Marion; 1964; Schickel, Richard PDF IMAGES
6-12	Letters/Department Letters On Nobody knows . . ., from April 1969: Letter By Donovan McClure Letter By Mary Meehan Letter By Jeremy Larner On Nobody knows . . ., from May 1969: Letter By Donovan McClure Letter By Mary Meehan Letter By Jeremy Larner On No. 12, from July 1969: Note/correction PDF IMAGES
14-20	The easy chair/Article Where it's at By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Appropriations and expenditures; Calcutta; California, Southern; Career in Maryland State Senate—Humor; Colorado; Conservationists; Dragons; Dwellings; Conroy, Edward; Humor; Fulbright, J. William (James William); Mining corporations; Natural disasters; New Orleans; San Francisco; Signs and signboards; Student movements; Swindlers and swindling; Waitresses; Young men PDF IMAGES
21-24	After hours/Article How to make politics from art, and vice versa By Russell Lynes SEE ALSO: Art and state; Arts; Atlanta; City and town life; Cultural policy; Federal aid to the arts; Libraries and state; National Endowment for the Arts; Newark PDF IMAGES
27-34	Article The forgotten American By Peter Schrag SEE ALSO: City and town life; Ethnic groups; Middle class; 1945-1970; Social problems; Trade-unions; White men; Working class whites PDF IMAGES
35-45	Article Gary, Indiana By Marshall Frady SEE ALSO: Gary; Gary (Ind.); Middle class; Social problems; Steel industry and trade; Steel-works PDF IMAGES
46-60	Article The selling of the president: 1968 By Joe McGinniss SEE ALSO: Advertising, Political; Career as presidential candidate; Contribution to the Nixon campaign, 1968; McGinniss, Joe; 1968; Politics, Practical; Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous); Television in politics PDF IMAGES
59	Poem Burnt out By Daryl Hine PDF IMAGES
61-68	Fiction Troop withdrawal—the initial step By Thomas Parker PDF IMAGES
69-72	Article Harvard on my mind By Michael Holroyd SEE ALSO: Cambridge; Harvard University; Student movements; Student strikes PDF IMAGES
73-75	Poem The dream he never knew the end of (an episode from Audubon, “The prairie”) By Robert Penn Warren PDF IMAGES
76-89	Article Back to Madrid By Barbara Probst Solomon SEE ALSO: Solomon, Barbara Probst; Childhood and youth; Friends and associates; Madrid; 1939-1975; Political prisoners; Portraits; Radicals; Refugees, Political; Youth PDF IMAGES
90-95	Books/Review The uncomplaining homosexuals By Diana Trilling SEE ALSO: Ackerley, J.R. (Joe Randolph); My father and myself (Book); Roth, Philip; Portnoy's complaint (Book) PDF TEXT IMAGES
95-97	Books in brief/Review Books in brief By Richard Schickel, John Hollander, Marion Magid, and David T. Bazelon SEE ALSO: Harrington, Alan; America at random (Book); Glanville, Brian; Conversations with Jorge Luis Borges (Book); Zhukov, Georgii Konstantinovich; Salisbury, Harrison Evans; Mitgang, Herbert; Babel', I. (Isaak); Marshal Zhukov's greatest battles (Book); Hayward, Max; Crichton, Michael; Babel, Nathaniel; Burgin, Richard; McKelway, St. Clair; The Andromeda Strain (Book); The big little man from Brooklyn (Book); The immortalist (Book); The Olympian (Book); Shabad, Theodore; You must know everything: stories 1915-1937 (Book) PDF IMAGES
98-101	Performing arts/Article Television reviewing By Richard Burgheim SEE ALSO: Career in criticism; Gould, Jack; Living-room war (Book); Arlen, Michael J.; Television criticism; Television programs PDF IMAGES
102-103	Music in the round/Review Singing beautifully By Discus SEE ALSO: Cavalli: L'Ormindo (Sound recording); Melba, Nellie, Dame; Schumann-Heink, Ernestine; Davia, Federico; Gavazzeni, Gianandrea; Bork, Hanneke van; Garcisanz, Isabel; Wakefield, John; Didier, Laura; London Philharmonic; Homer, Louise; Pavarotti, Luciano; Mascagni: L'amico Fritz (Sound recording); Freni, Mirella; Performances; Runge, Peter-Christoph; Cavalli, Pier Francesco; Mascagni, Pietro; Leppard, Raymond; Sardiniero, Vincenzo PDF IMAGES
104	Harper's puzzle/Department No. 13: Acrostickler By Henry Allen PDF IMAGES