April 1976
In This Issue
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Articles
The Tenth Dumbest Thing
Offsides
Culture Watch
The Rich Get Rich, but They Also Get Children
World of Our Fathers
Nightmare: The Underside of the Nixon Years
1876
More Cats
Details of a Sunset and Other Stories
The Long Hunter
Stories and Plays
Daughter of Fire
Capital
The Hunting Hypothesis
Weeping in the Playtime of Others
Chronicles of Bustos Domecq
Across the Western
Saqqara
Fbi: An Uncensored Look Behind the Walls
The Making and the Breaking of a President
Letter From the Country
The Intelligence Tangle: The Cia and the Fbi Face the Moment of Truth
Once the secret agents of the republic patrolled what Dean Rusk called “the back alleys of world politics” without much question about their mission. No longer. The Atlantic’s Washington editor examines the past and present of the tangled “intelligence business” and the prospects now for reform.
The Editor's Page
The President of the Argentine
The Pacific Northwest
The opening stanza of “America the Beautiful” might well have been written about one corner of the continent, the Pacific Northwest, with its spacious skies and amber waves of grain above the fruited plain. Continuing the vicarious tour of the nation that last spring encamped The Atlantic in the state of Texas, we take you now into the nation’s “far corner,” a place of pleasures, contrasts, and problems, and of people who are deeply engaged in the struggle to save what is good about their lives while meeting the economic and technological demands of contemporary society.
Malpractice
A Tale of Three Cities
Boeing, the Jumbo Exception
The Odd-Job Man
