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John F. Kennedy
The Kennedy Circle: A New Powerful Masculine Mystique
by Steven Watts In 1959 JFK stood as a youthful political leader, with an allure more…
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When JFK Endorsed The Ugly American
by Steven Watts In the crisis of masculinity that preoccupied so many in late 1950s America,…
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John F. Kennedy: The Total Politician
by John T. Shaw John F. Kennedy The political career of John F. Kennedy skyrocketed in…
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John F Kennedy in Office: Tips for Today’s Senate
John T. Shaw If Senator John F Kennedy in office was faced with the U.S. Senate…
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President Kennedy: Berlin, Laos, and “Flexible Response”
By Alan Brinkley Late in May 1961, Kennedy decided to present a second State of the Union…
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Nixon’s Bay of Pigs Secrets
By Don Fulsom In the dark, early hours of June 17, 1972, from inside the offices…
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November 22, 1963: Conspiracy, Murder, and the Mystery Behind the Assassination of JFK
By Alex Von Tunzelmann On 22 November 1963, CIA Special Affairs Section head Desmond FitzGerald was…
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President Kennedy and the Berlin Wall
By Michael O'Brien After [the]Vienna [Conference], events turned sour for Khrushchev. Instead of retreating, Kennedy held…
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John F. Kennedy
7 Books to Celebrate Women’s History Month
This Women’s History Month, we bring you seven titles highlighting the amazing feats of women, whether…
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Good With a Gun
by Tom Clavin
In the following excerpt from Follow Me to Hell, Tom Clavin introduces John…
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When Fascists Roamed America’s Cities
by Thomas Mullen
When we think about the World War II years, we tend to visualize…
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The Mayor and the Nazis
by Terry Golway
As hard as it is to imagine, there was a time in the…
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The First Shots of the Revolution
by Jack Kelly
In the following excerpt from God Save Benedict Arnold , the first shots of…
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The Cave Man
by Tom Clavin
Did you know that there was a series of events known as the…
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Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz
Cold Crematorium is the first English language edition of a lost memoir by Holocaust survivor József…
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Edith Wharton’s Guide to New York
by Mariah Fredericks
Mariah Fredericks's new novel, The Wharton Plot, follows renowned novelist Edith Wharton through…
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