The ninety-six-year-old Roger Angell, whose first vote was for FDR in 1944, says that this election is the most important of his lifetime. There is no reason to doubt him. | Continue »

Photograph by Jason Shure. This is Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, which also holds Leonard Bernstein and Louis Moreau Gottschalk. The headstone for Mr. Carter's wife, Helen, is just out of sight on the lower right; his parents, Elliott and Florence, are... | Continue »