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1. Fiftieth Anniversary

   Caro’s Way

   March 27, 2012 02:35 PM

   It was the most contested election in the history of Texas. On August 28, 1948, Lyndon B. Johnson, a ruthless young Texas congressman, squared off against former Governor Coke Stevenson in a brutally competitive runoff for the U.S. Senate. In... Continue reading

2. Feature

   A Rocket’s Trajectory

   September 16, 2010 06:00 AM

   For more than thirty years, Keith Richburg has been a classy and distinguished presence at The Washington Post. Richburg served as bureau chief in Manila, Nairobi, and Paris, and also spent more than two years as foreign editor in... Continue reading

3. Review

   Memoirs of a Pugilist

   May 21, 2010 01:13 PM

   Hitch-22: A Memoir | By Christopher Hitchens | Twelve | 435 pages, $26.99 In early 1966, shortly after he moved to the United States, the witty and urbane English journalist Henry Fairlie wrote an extended essay about the... Continue reading

4. Second Read

   The Unvanquished

   November 13, 2007 12:00 PM

   A few months before he died in a car accident, David Halberstam published a droll, melancholy homage to his colleague and friend Marshall Frady, who lost a prolonged battle with cancer in 2004. The essay appears as a new... Continue reading