May/June 2014
In This Issue May/June 2014
A Venn Diagram of Walter Isaacson
His research overlaps with reporting, his leadership with collaboration, his writing with old-fashioned storytelling.
Volume 35, Issue 3
The 43rd Jefferson Lecturer, Walter Isaacson.
—James Kegley
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Features
Picture of a Humanist
There is something of Walter Isaacson in the people he writes about.
By Evan Thomas
The Odyssey of Ulysses S. Grant
After winning the Civil War and living in the White House, he decided to see the world.
By Meredith Hindley
Verse and Adverse
The letters of Robert Frost invite us to reconsider the man behind the poetry.
By Danny Heitman -
Departments
Statements
Happy and the Go-Hawks
Emilie Blackmore Stapp raised millions through her philanthropic club.
By Paige GrayOne-Off
Rising Interest in Bread
Modern views, demographic changes leavened Jordanian cultural traditions surrounding the staff of life.
By Steve MoyerImpertinent Questions
Impertinent Questions with Paula A. Michaels
On the Soviet experiment that became Lamaze.
By Meredith HindleyExecutive Function
Arizona's Brenda Thomson
Brenda Thomson works to bring everyone into the conversation.
By Todd MillerEdNote
Editor's Note
This issue includes a conversation with the Jefferson Lecturer, and articles on Einstein, Grant, Frost, and painter Archibald Motley.
By David Skinner
