Peter Kaplan: An Editor with an Eye for the Future
TIME’s former managing editor remembers the man who ran The New York Observer and kept score for a city’s elite
TIME’s former managing editor remembers the man who ran The New York Observer and kept score for a city’s elite
Exactly 150 years ago, in the midst of the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln signed the Morrill Act, which launched the great and enduring public university system in America. Even during the most wrenching conflict in our history, Lincoln was thinking of the future.