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1979-04 Atlantic Monthly Magazine Contents

1979/04 — Contents as follows:

An Atlantic Special — The California Dynasty: Otis Chandler and His Publishing Empire – by David Halberstam

  • 1. The Invention of Southern California
  • 2. Norman Chandler: Inheritor, Kingmaker
  • 3. Buff Chandler: Feminist Mover
  • 4. Otis Chandler: Overachiever
  • 5. Riding the Wave
  • The Amniotic Universe – Reflections on birth, death, and God – by Carl Sagan
  • The Case of the Missing Uranium – Who is minding the store at our nuclear power facilities? – by David Burnham
  • Toward an Appropriate Technology – Notes on the grossness of the national product by the author of Small is Beautiful — by E.F. Schumacher

    • FICTION:

  • “The Imperial Icehouse” by Paul Theroux
  • “There’s a Hero in Our Back Yard” by Soinbhe Lally

    • POETRY:

  • “Wolf Moon” by Mary Oliver
  • “March Day” by Michael Dennis Browne
  • “Secrets” by Linda Pasten

    • REPORTS & COMMENT:
    The Middle East:

  • Afghanistan by Franklin Patterson
  • Iraq by Claudia Wright

    • LIFE & LETTERS:

  • A Brief Treasury of American Folklore by Andrew Ward
  • Natty Bumppo Goes to War by Arthur Lubow
  • PLA by Phoebe-Lou Adams
  • Coming in the Atlantic
  • It Wasn’t as Easy as It Seemed by Caskie Stinnett
  • The Mail
  • The Atlantic Puzzler