Mr. and Mrs. Andrews, by Thomas Gainsborough, c. 1750. National Gallery, London.

Mr. and Mrs. Andrews, by Thomas Gainsborough, c. 1750. National Gallery, London.

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Volume 1, Number 2 | spring 2008

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Holy Dread

Lewis H. Lapham

Fortune’s Wheel

Jackson Lears

Disaster at Dunkirk: A Nightmare Fantasy

Ian Kershaw

Prometheus Unbound

Jack Weatherford

Funny Money

Edward Castronova

Arts Endowment

Tim Parks

Map

Perpetual Motion

Miscellany

Voices In Time

Means to an End

1918 | London

Allowances

1750 | London

Antebellum Kapital

1836 | Washington, DC

Jane Austen Conceives a Marriage

1813 | Netherfield

The Gospel According to Andrew Carnegie

1889 | Pittsburgh

Stairway to Heaven

2001 | Sardinia

The New South

1903 | Atlanta

Livestock

1790 | Philadelphia

Major Barbara Meets Her Maker

1905 | London

INRI

1896 | Chicago

Tacking East

1913 | Central Park

A Cheap Coat Makes a Cheap Man

1899 | Chicago

Point of Order

1841 | Paris

A Galaxy Far, Far Away

1516 | Utopia

Toil and Trouble

1776 | Kirkcaldy

Playing the Market

c. 1850 | Mississippi River

Designer Dress

1824 | Zululand

Benjamin Franklin’s Bottom Line

1748 | Philadelphia

The Work of a Gentleman

c. 1763 | Prussia

Sending for the Fires of Heaven

c. 70 | Babylon

For Everything Else There’s MasterCard

1848 | London

Sound Advice

1763 | London

Blessed Are the Poor

1860 | London

Running the Numbers

1887 | Russia

The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of

1819 | New York City

Henry Ford on the Road to Riches

1922 | Detroit

Brown Gold

1908 | Vienna

Charts and Graphs

The Most Expensive Paintings Ever Sold

The Cost of Living

A-List Weddings

Shakespeare’s Shillings

Words to the Wise

First-Class Dining

Speculating on Definitions

Celebrity Appearance

The Price of Life

The Price of Immortality

Exchange Rates

Dowries

Contributors

Conversations

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