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BUSTING TRUSTS • STANDARD OIL COMPANY OF NEW JERSEY V. THE UNITED STATES, 1911 221 U.S. 1 RESTRAINT OF TRADE
OLD SOUL
STYLE • We flash through photographer Harry Benson’s new book, Persons of Interest; encounter a historic resort; and call on storied piano maker Steinway & Sons.
Death Wish? • Alexander Hamilton may have come to Weehawken feeling he was fixing to die.
Power of the Pardon • The intricacies behind the American presidency’s most imperial perquisite
Pardons and Commutations of Note
Pardoning Lieutenant Flipper
As American as Jim Crow • The trickster whose name came to label racist laws and culture has a startling history
Field of Focus • One Southerner’s exposures
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