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How Lady Bird Johnson Saw the President Die

How Lady Bird Johnson Saw the President Die

Julia Sweig On America’s Most Famous Second Lady-Turned-First

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After Steve Jobs, The Flood: Apple Without Its Emblematic and Enigmatic Founder

After Steve Jobs, The Flood: Apple Without Its Emblematic and Enigmatic Founder

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The Untold and Very True Story of <em>The Devil Wears Prada</em>

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“He wanted to write, to give himself over to pure leisure, to the search.”

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How Sissieretta Jones, Celebrated Black Opera Singer, Enshrined Her Own Story

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For Robert Leleux Finding the One Family More Messed Up Than His Own Was a Life-Saver

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Did Thomas Edison “Disappear” His Most Significant Rival in Inventing the Kinetograph?

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Imagining the Lives of the Aviators Who Inspired William Faulkner

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Taylor Brown on Looking to the Past (Which Isn't Even Past)

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