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September 1992 Issue
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This magazine has been fully digitized as a part of The Atlantic's archive. Each article originally printed in this magazine is available here, complete and unedited from the historical print. Read more from this magazine, or explore the full archive.
  • Dissent in Nazi Germany
    Nathan Stoltzfus
  • Okefenokee Romp: Paddling Through a Place Where the Alligators Grow as Big as Canoes
    Roy Blount Jr.
  • Borscht-Belt Trombone: The Great Jazz Trombonist Roswell Rudd Makes Music in the Catskills
    Francis Davis
  • The Duke of Puddle Dock
    Phoebe-Lou Adams
  • Afghanistan: Soviet Vietnam
    Phoebe-Lou Adams
  • The Small Bang

Notes: Was America a Mistake?

By Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
September 1992 Issue

About the Author

Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
Arthur Schlesinger Jr. was a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and a special assistant to President John F. Kennedy. He taught at Harvard University and the City University of New York.

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