American Heritage
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| 34 | WHAT MADE THE GOVERNMENT GROW by Bernard A. Weisberger . . . and grow, and grow, from almost no employees to some three million. Don't blame the welfare state, or the military; what actually happened is much more interesting. |
| 65 | SUPER MARIO NATION by Steven. L. Kent The video game turns 25 years old this year, and it has packed a whole lot of history into a career that began in the restless imagination of a bright kid who was hanging out with the M.I.T. model-railroad club. |
| 78 | AMONG THE COWBOYS by Alex Shoumatoff They carry on an elemental American tradition that is surprisingly recent and has been dying for half the time it's been alive-but will be with us for a long time yet. |
| 92 | THE HERETIC by David Lehman At the height of the American avant-garde movement, Fairfield Porter's realistic paintings defied the orthodoxy of Abstract Expressionism-and risked rejection by the art world. But today his true stature is becoming apparent: He may just be the best we have. |
| 7 | LETTER FROM THE EDITOR |
| 8 | CORRESPONDENCE |
| 14 | IN THE NEWS by Bernard A. Weisberger |
| 18 | THE BUSINESS OF AMERICA by John Steele Gordon |
| 22 | HISTORY HAPPENED HERE |
| 28 | MY BRUSH WITH HISTORY |
| 105 | THE TIME MACHINE by Frederic D. Schwarz |
| 112 | READERS' ALBUM |