Ghosts In The White House
Discreet helpers have worked on the speeches and papers of many Presidents, but a nation in a time of trial will respond best “to the Great Man himself, standing alone”Claude M. FuessDecember 1958It is...
View ArticleOur Two Greatest Presidents
Without doubt they were Washington, who walked carefully within the Constitution, and Lincoln, who stretched it as far as he daredClinton RossiterFebruary 1959The myth and the reality of American...
View Article“Whatever You Write, Preserve”
All that the Adamses saw they were schooled to put down and save. The result is a collection of historical records beyond price and without peer.L. H. ButterfieldApril 1959In Philadelphia, just five...
View ArticleThe Place of Franklin D. Roosevelt in History
Allan NevinsJune 1966Seldom has an eminent man been more conscious of his place in history than was Franklin D. Roosevelt. He regarded history as an imposing drama and himself as a conspicuous actor....
View ArticleThe Taking Of California
A low comedy for high stakes:February 1973For three hundred years California drifted in a backwash of time. Spain had discovered the region in 1542 but had done little about it until the latter part...
View Article“most Americans Don’t Know What Lincoln Really Represents”
For a good part of his life, the governor of New York has used history as a guide—and a solaceWilliam E. LeuchtenburgDecember 1990Those who see Gov. Mario Cuomo of New York for the first time are...
View ArticlePresidents On Presidents
They’ve all had things to say about their fellow Executives. Once in a great while one was even flattering.Thomas FlemingNovember 1992John Adams said Thomas Jefferson’s mind was “eaten to a honeycomb...
View ArticlePresidents In The Woods
AN OHIO UNDERTAKER’S LIFELONG obsession has left a mysterious outdoor gallery of American folk artEzra GoldsteinApril 1996 HIGH ON A RIDGE IN A REMOTE, HEAVILY WOODED AREA OF SOUTHEASTERN Ohio, a...
View Article1974: Twenty-five Years Ago
Dick’s Last TrickFrederic D. SchwarzApril 1999Watergate dominated the news in April, as it had for more than a year. Each day seemed to bring new evidence of malfeasance by President Richard Nixon and...
View ArticleMy Years With Ronald Reagan
What a skeptical biographer discovered about a very elusive subjectRichard ReevesFebruary/March 2006I first met Ronald Reagan in November of 1967. It was a brief encounter, and I was not impressed. I...
View ArticleLincoln In Hawaiian Memory
Spring 2009 On the grounds of the Ewa Plantation School just west of Honolulu stands a bronze statue of a young Abraham Lincoln with ax in hand, forearms rippling after splitting logs. Fifteen years...
View ArticleKing, Obama, And The Great American Dialogue
What would Martin Luther King Jr.—had he been alive today—thought of our latest president’s oratory?Clayborne CarsonSpring 2009Standing in the cold with 2 million others near the Capitol as Barack...
View ArticleThe Wrong Man At The Wrong Time
For all his previous successes, President Herbert Hoover proved incapable of arresting the economic free fall of the Depression— or soothing the fears of a distressed nationWilliam E....
View ArticleMadison’s Radical Agenda
A diminutive, persuasive Virginian hijacked the Constitutional Convention and forced the moderates to accept a national government with vastly expanded powersJoseph J. EllisWinter 2010On May 5, 1787,...
View ArticleA Country Of Vast Designs: James K. Polk, The Mexican War And The Conquest Of...
Tom HuntingtonSpring 2010James K. Polk appears doomed to remain one of our least appreciated presidents, despite Robert W. Merry’s valiant attempt to drag him from the shadows in A Country of Vast...
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