November 1998

Bela Lugosi began by playing Laertes and Romeo, only to become forever trapped in very different roles

… or why in America campaign-finance reform never succeeds

You’ve just written a history of America from Columbus to Clinton; what do you put on the cover?

A singer’s journey through the life of Irving Berlin

Growing up on a Cold War air base in the shadow of the big one

Reminiscences of World War II’s European Theater add up to considerably more than a bunch of good war stories