Jul 27, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
The August issue of Smithsonian has a feature on “Four Political Conventions That Changed America,” including articles on the 1912 Republican convention by Lewis Gould; the 1948 Democratic convention by Truman biographer Alonzo Hamby; the 1968 Democratic...
Jul 26, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
This week I finished Rick Perlstein’s book Nixonland. My conclusions are not very much changed from what I previously posted, and as I mentioned previously Oxford historian Dominic Sandbrook’s review in the London Telegraph expresses an opinion of the book...
Jul 23, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
“West Virginia already has the men to match her mountains – men of vigor and courage and determination .” – Sen. John F. Kennedy in Glenwood Park, West Virginia, April 26, 1960, one of dozens of campaign addresses in which he spoke of...
Jul 19, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Rick Perlstein’s Nixonland hit British bookstores earlier this month, and at the London Telegraph Dominic Sandbrook, of Oxford’s history faculty and the author of well-received books on Eugene McCarthy and England in the Swinging Sixties, reviews it. His...
Jul 17, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Few people were better liked in Washington, and for good reason, than former White House press spokesperson Tony Snow, who died last week at age 53, so it’s no surprise that this morning President Bush, Karl Rove, and other figures from the political, social,...
