From the Book - First edition
Common sense : tis time to part
Automobile self-starter : Kettering's practical solution
Berlin Airlift : we stay in Berlin. Period
Birds of America : Audubon's great idea
Black baseball : the bumpy, begrudging road
Burroughs-Wellcome and Gertrude Elion : the perfect chemistry
C-SPAN : where content is the star
Chicago defender : aiding and abetting the great migration
Coca-Cola's recipe : the greatest secret ever kept, told by the man who keeps it
Corvette : like a bat out of hell
Country music : the Bristol sessions
Edison's invention factories : stick-to-itiveness
Elements of style : parvum opus
Farm Security Administration photographers
FDR's Fireside Chats : holding us together
Freedom Riders : we are prepared to die
G.I. Bill : helping create the middle class
Iditarod : the last great race
Industrial design : a superior sense of the practical
Industrial light and magic : to leap without looking
Keeneland : racing as it was meant to be
Kimbell Museum : the client is human nature
Lend lease : the most unsordid act
M*A*S*H : the final episode
Marshall Plan : essentials for European recovery
Mohawk steel workers : dealing with the fear
Making journalism history : we take you now to London
N. C. Wyeth's treasure island illustrations : scaring us stiff
National Geographic maps : a sense of where we are
Navajo code talkers : the century's best kept secret
New York Public Library's room 315
Oklahoma Land Rush of 1889 : a handful of white dice thrown out across the prairie
Transfer of presidential power
Can you tell me how to get to Sesame Street?
Smithsonian Institution : the nation's attic
Sousa's band : the music men
Spirit of St. Louis : shooting star
Sportswriting : the golden age
Sun records : when all hell broke loose
Surfing Oahu's north shore : Eddie would go
Television situation comedy
Travis's letter from the Alamo : victory or death
Tuskegee airmen : all blood runs red
Underground Railroad : following the North Star
Volkswagen's campaign in America
Webster's American dictionary : the final volley of independence
Woman suffrage movement : failure is impossible
Wright brothers : concept of genius
Yellow fever : a common cause for a disease all too common
Yellowstone, our first national park