February/March 2000

Without his brilliance at espionage the Revolution could not have been won

A true story of their final days on the Florida seashore, when a water cannon destroyed a suspicious package later found to contain miniature portraits by the celebrated American painter Gilbert Stuart

In a century and a half it has produced six sublime, increasingly expensive boats—and competition so ferocious it is beginning to transcend national allegiances

Two hundred years after his birth, Americans still revere him as a martyr and loathe him as a fanatical murderer. What was he?

Skirmishing about environmentalism may well continue forever, but the major war is over. It lasted far longer than most people realize.