Robert Frank's The AmericansHow a Swiss émigré's cross-country road trip changed photography.

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Fred Kaplan, Slate's "War Stories" columnist, also writes widely about culture. His next book, 1959: The Year Everything Changed, will be out this spring. He can be reached at .

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