https://www.cityofsmoke.com New York in History and Anecdote Fri, 05 Jun 2009 15:49:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 https://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/1018 Sun, 21 Jan 2001 20:36:07 +0000 http://www.cityofsmoke.com/?p=1018 In 1910, Albert Jay Nock, then forty, joined the American Magazine. His writings, unusually good, were his best credential. Otherwise, no one knew much about him. Writing about Thomas Jefferson years later, he would characterize him as "the most approachable and the most impenetrable of men, easy and delightful of]]>