Nationalism is back in the news. 2016 was a hinge moment. Brexit in the United Kingdom, combined with the Trump and Sanders insurgencies in the United States, focused attention on populism …
Edmund Morris | Edison
Edmund Morris was best known as the author of an acclaimed triptych on Theodore Roosevelt. He’s one of the best of the notable group of popular historians who rose to fame in the 1970s and 1980s, …
Benjamin Franklin Admonition, 17 September 1787
Sept. 17, 1787, is the date on which the United States Constitution was read and engrossed in final form at the constitutional convention. Benjamin Franklin, then 81 years old, was too frail to make a …
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John Lithgow | Drama
Autobiography can be a treacherous enterprise. Drama by John Lithgow, is exemplary of the best of the genre. …
General George Patton | Plans, Planning
Jonathan Darman | Landslide
Landslide is a delightful read. It's filled with insights and observations that will interest the most knowledgeable political junkie. Journalist Jonathan Darman writes with a flair that will hold …