Wipe out, look stupid, try again. The Quarterly Journal of Military History offers an excellent primer in what we've been missing. The lavishly illustrated, hardcover quarterly features pieces by both journalists and academics, and its contributing editors include Stephen E. Ambrose, Caleb Carr, and John Keegan. The Boston sports press is one of the toughest in America, and Dan Shaughnessy, columnist for The Boston Globe, reflects the town's unforgiving but always faithful relationship with its professional teams. So it's surprising to hear Tapper say he didn't feel comfortable arguing the side of the left on CNN's Crossfire last November.
Uniforms can be erotic and inspire fear.
They can equalize and differentiate. They can signal authority and rebellion. Deploying an eclectic collage of war reportage, advertisements, movie stills, propaganda, and sometimes sarcastic commentary, the book catalogs how uniforms have influenced universal icons and global patterns of dress over the past 50 years. The iconic Denver monthly Mountain Gazette had a great run between 1972 and 1979, when it published such noted authors as Edward Abbey, Wendall Berry, and George Sibley. In a small office in Breckenridge, Colorado, the two oversee the operation, from editing to writing to selling ads.