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The Day Wall Street Exploded: A Story of America in Its First Age of Terror By Beverly Gage, Oxford, 2009, 400 pp., $27.95 At noon on Sept. 16, 1920, a delivery wagon parked on New York’s Wall Street exploded, spraying lead counterweights into a crowd of workers streaming out for lunch. Messengers, typists and salesmen …
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What We Learned: from the Battle of Ball’s BluffIn mid-October 1861, Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan, commander of the Army of the Potomac, ordered a Union push toward Leesburg, Va., hoping perhaps to capture the town on the far l… Read MoreHeist in CherbourgHow Israel’s cool-hand naval commandos stole five missile boats from a French shipyard—on Christmas Eve. When France imposed an arms embargo on Israel on the eve of the June 1967 S… Read MoreFallen Timbers, Broken AllianceWhen the new nation needed a soldier to fight Indians and build a standing army, it called on a man whose hard-charging style had earned him the nickname ‘Mad Anthony’ George Washi… Read MoreAmerica’s Top WWI AceCaptain Eddie Rickenbacker 94th Aero Squadron Medal of Honor France Sept. 25, 1918 World War I ace Edward Vernon Rickenbacker is one of the most highly decorated American airmen of… Read MoreIndomitable AfghanistanOft-called the “the Graveyard of Empires,” the wild region now known as Afghanistan has foiled would-be conquerors for millennia. In 1809 a diplomat named Mountstuart Elphinstone l… Read More
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