Poetic Obituaries: During his nearly 15 years as the Atlantic's

editor, he [Robert Manning] brought the magazine into the center of covering the big events of that time, notably the Vietnam war, civil rights progress and tumult, the economic transformations of the oil-shock and stagflation era, the cultural rending and refashioning of American society, the Watergate-induced changes in DC politics, and much else.

from The Atlantic: Robert Manning, Wendy Weil

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