Word: representations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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For most students the book will represent their main chance of learning about U.S. history. For their middle-aged parents, such titles bring back memories of George Washington with an inked-in mustache, and their own introduction to a unified, changeless heritage: a view of America shaped by its great...
Some changes represent an inclusion of facts previously suppressed. Some are simply the result of shifting historical interpretations, still highly contested or questionable. Inevitably a changing country will reshape its vision of its own past, for good or ill. Frances FitzGerald has kind words for some of the new texts...
Now Vance has a new nemesis in Carnivalman Strauss, who has become an indispensable ally to Carter and the Georgians. That alliance may be put to the test in the next few weeks. The ambassador is exploring the possibility of serving as a dollar-a-year man for the Government...
When he got back he insisted on a meeting, and that was swiftly arranged. Vance interrupted his vacation on Martha's Vineyard; Brzezinski, about to leave town, delayed his departure. The three gathered in the Situation Room of the White House, along with Mondale, who was asked by Carter...
Such natural pointers would explain how the Olmecs sculptured a 3,500-year-old figure of a turtle with a magnetic snout. To the Olmecs, Malmstrom speculates the magnetism may have been the magical power by which sea turtles found their way across great expanses of ocean. (He also suggests...