Queen Elizabeth I, c. 1600. National Portrait Gallery, London.

Queen Elizabeth I, c. 1600. National Portrait Gallery, London. 

Politics

Volume V, Number 4 | fall 2012

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Feast of Fools

Lewis H. Lapham

The Woman Who Would Be King

Kara Cooney

Tales of Brave Ulysses

H.W. Brands

The Great Rift

Jeffrey Gettleman

Between the Lines

Robert Boyers

Trial by Fire

Anthony Grafton

Working the Room

Michael Phillips-Anderson

Map

Powers That Be

Miscellany

Anything for a vote: Huey Long fabricates his past.

Strom Thurmond’s record-breaking filibuster.

Justinian’s household politics.

Young Victoria’s earnest wishes.

Deciding under the influence, a Persian tradition.

Abraham Lincoln, not a looker.

“Never was such an incapacity for veracity shown since Eve lived in Paradise.”

Blowing Watergate way out of proportion.

The dry wit of Calvin Coolidge.

The origins of ostracism.

Shihuangdi’s monument to his own achievements.

“That 150 lawyers should do business together ought not to be expected.”

Esquire’s “hard-hitting little press team.”

A history lesson from Orson Welles.

“Barnum missed something when he missed you.”

Campaigning from the clink.

Voices In Time

The Wrong Side of the Atlantic

1842 | Baltimore

Covert Affairs

c. 300 BC | India

Wherein Man Has Failed

1910 | New York City

Cleaning House

411 BC | Athens

Remembrances of a Republic Past

1812 | United States

To Whom It May Concern

1789 | New York City

Different Constitutions

1858 | Ottawa, IL

Public Service Announcement

1819 | Florence

Point of Order

c. 1745 | La Brède

Art of the Possible

1787 | Mount Vernon

The Force of One’s Convictions

1876 | Essex

Introducing the Candidates

2011 | Lima

True to Form

c. 330 BC | Athens

Pump Up the Volume

c. 1925 | China

Corporations Are People Too

2010 | Washington, DC

If You Can’t Stand the Heat

1959 | Moscow

Voting for Monarchy

522 BC | Persia

All Power to the People

1917 | Petrograd

Declining the Honor

1849 | Concord, MA

Taste Test

1526 | Agra

Security Measures

1776 | Philadelphia

Camera Ready

1507 | Urbino

Words to the Wise

c. 525 | Denmark

No Child Left Behind

c. 771 | Gaul

In the Spotlight

c. 1930 | New York City

Desolation Row

1775 | Braintree, MA

Campaign Promises

1879 | Hartford, CT

It’s a Man’s Man’s Man’s World

1848 | Seneca Falls, NY

A Dictator’s Folly

1973 | Tehran

Do the Right Thing

427 BC | Athens

Taking Action

1969 | Washington, DC

Freedom Isn’t Free

1790 | London

Purifying the Body Politic

1492 | Granada

Closing Arguments

2000 | Borneo

Politically Incorrect

c. 1673 | England

Unbroken Spirit

1918 | Munich

Father Knows Best

c. 1804 | Missouri

Democratic Protocol

c. 328 BC | Zariaspa

Portrait of a Dictator

1933 | Moscow

Charts and Graphs

Banned from the Land

Anything for a Vote

Friends and Enemies of the State

Arts of the State

Game of Thrones

Rights & Representation

Qualified for the Job

What’s in a Name?

Winds of Change

Political Parties

Ages of Empire

Contributors

Conversations

Ferdowsi & Ed Burns and William Zorzi

Homer & John Milton

Plato & Edith Wharton

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