1918-1945 Archives

1918-1945

A Very Perfect Instrument

The ferocity and failure of America’s sanctions apparatus

St. Paul’s Curse

From a May 24, 1943, memo to British foreign secretary Anthony Eden, from Owen O’Malley, the British ambassador to the Polish government in exile, in the collection of the Franklin…

Barack Hoover Obama

by Kevin Baker,

The best and the brightest blow it again

Beer hall tush

by Mel Gordon,

Nightmare on 53rd Street

Edited by Michelle Elligott,

Circus music

by Edward Hoagland,

For clowns, lions, and solo trapeze

Washington wheel of fortune

by Philip Guedalla,

Two stops, a century apart, on a losing number

The roaring eighties

by Robert Lekachman,

1929 and 1969

by John Kenneth Galbraith,

Financial genius is a short memory and a rising market

John Held’s mad world

by Russell Lynes,

Point of no return? . . . a puzzled report from Yugoslavia (part I)

by John Fischer,