May 19, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
There has recently been an uptick in Nixon commentary online and in the print press. Not surprisingly, some of it is factually inaccurate. Reviewing the Perlstein biography, Newsweek’s Evan Thomas writes: The establishment press had been flummoxed by it...
May 19, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Here’s a link to James Rosen’s appearance last night on c-span’s Q&A. You can read the transcript or watch Brian Lamb lead the hour-long discussion about Mr. Rosen’s about to be published (in 24 hours) book The Strong Man — a...
May 18, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Reading yet another glowing review of Robert Schlesinger’s new book about presidential speechwriters —White House Ghosts— in today’s Washington Post reminded me that I meant to post a link to an earlier review (in the Washington Times) written...
May 16, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
I have now read two-thirds of Rick Perlstein’s Nixonland (that is, up to the point where the book describes the Kent State shootings and aftermath) and can confirm that this historian’s narrative skills continue to be stronger than his primary research,...
May 15, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Mitt Romney spoke about the relationship between religion and politics again last week, continuing and clarifying the argument he made in December while still a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination. The occasion for his recent remarks was his receipt...
May 14, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
What with all the 40th anniversary blathering about the “Spring of ‘68” and the international youth uprising that it is now fondly remembered as having represented (especially by the no-longer-youths who were there then and are now writing the cultural criticism), it...
