In “The Feather Wars,” James H. McCommons pays tribute to the nation’s first conservationists. By Joshua Hammer As his new memoir demonstrates, he himself would achieve fame as a visual artist, ...

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“The Arsenio Hall Show,” which premièred on January 3, 1989, and ran for six seasons, became the unofficial late-night home of hip-hop. “Arsenio,” a memoir written by the eponymous Black comedian with ...