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'JFK' Review: The Road to Camelot
Via: Vic Eldred
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John F. Kennedy poses a problem for historians and chroniclers of American politics. He was a man of good looks, unquestioned charm and public eloquence. He was the Harvard-educated son of a...
'The Quiet Americans' Review: Inventing the CIA
Via: Vic Eldred
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Were America’s unsung Cold War spies and their masters adroit covert heroes protecting the nation and the free world from the encroaching evil of Stalin and his successors? Or were they the...
Hemingway's "To Have and Have Not"
Via: Vic Eldred
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“The hell with my arm. You lose an arm you lose an arm. There's worse things than lose an arm. You've got two arms and you've got two of something else. And a man's still a man with one arm or...
Obama's Memoir 'A Promised Land' Coming in November
Via: Vic Eldred
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'Who Gets In and Why' and 'The College Conversation' Review: The Price of Admission
Via: Vic Eldred
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It was an amusing headline—“A Grim Future Beckons: The Pandemic Will Bring Capitalism to the Heart of Academe.” The article, in the Chronicle of Higher Education last month, reported that colleges...
Grand Jury Subpoenas Sent to John Bolton's Publisher and Agent
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Federal prosecutors issued grand jury subpoenas to former national security adviser John Bolton’s publisher and literary agent on Monday, according to people familiar with the matter, launching...
