Dec 9, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
As RN often equably observed, his books could always count on at least a couple of hundred thousand sales because the cons —who were eagerly anticipating delicious new Nixonian excesses and outrages— were as likely to buy them as were the pros —who...
Dec 9, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Back in middle 1980s, when I was a magazine editor, we would sit around my office one night shortly before each deadline and concoct each issue’s all-but-obligatory lists —Who’s Hot, Who’s Sexy, Who’s Who, etc., etc.— that would...
Dec 9, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
“With a little bit of luck, and the help of a few close friends, you’re going to carry Illinois.” —1960 phone call by Mayor Richard J. Daley “[The Illinois Senate Seat] is a [expletive deleted] valuable thing. You just don’t...
Dec 9, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
(Politics breeds strange box fellows: flanking the Presidential Box at the Kennedy Center at last night’s Kennedy Center Awards: from left, Twyla Tharp, Roger Daltrey, Pete Townshend, Barbra Streisand, Morgan Freeman, George Jones, The First Lady, President...
Dec 9, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
In today’s New York Times, veteran science correspondent William A. Broad previews two new books that combine to do some rewriting —or at least some major revision— of the atomic history. The Nuclear Express: A Political History of the Bomb and its...
