Feb 4, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
In his attack in today’s Daily Beast on the critics of Stanley I. Kutler’s book Abuse Of Power, John Dean informs the world that in the wake of the much-discussed New York Times article on the subject, he has decided that the time has come to republish his...
Feb 4, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Yesterday’s Boston Globe had an amusing op-ed in which Alan Cox and Stacy Keach (the Frost and Nixon, respectively, of the touring production of Peter Morgan’s play) and Bob Zelnick, the gray eminence of David Frost’s researching team, discussed the...
Jan 31, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
The New York Times site has just posted a very thought-provoking article (to appear in tomorrow’s edition) about recent charges by several historians that Abuse Of Power, the 1997 volume of transcripts of White House tape conversations transcribed and edited by...
Jan 30, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
The most recent issue of Newsweek featured its annual Oscar Roundtable, moderated by the magazine’s David Ansen and Ramin Setoodeh. The participants this year included Anne Hathaway, Sally Hawkins, Robert Downey Jr., Brad Pitt, Mickey Rourke, and Frank Langella,...
Jan 23, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Ben Alpers of Oklahoma University put up a quite interesting blogpost this week tracing the roughly fifteen-year heyday of the “White House intellectual.” President Kennedy began the tradition by bringing in acclaimed historian (and walking definition of...
