Columnists Joseph and Stewart Alsop played a parlor game with their readers. Like many another occasional reader of history, they had been struck by the ominous political parallels between the war of two ancient states and today's struggle between the U.S. and Russia. To drive this gloomy point home, their column last week carried excerpts from a history book, substituting the U.S. and Russia for the ancient contenders, air power for sea power. The Alsops offered $100 to the first reader who guessed book, author and war.
Alsops' fable: "From a financial point of view, the United States held in...
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