Subtitle: Roosevelt, Lodge, Hearst, and the Rush to Empire, 1898
Author: Evan Thomas
Publisher: Little, Brown
Page Count: 480
The Gist: A rollicking account of the build-up to the Spanish-American War, when a hysterical press combined with a war-mad Executive Branch to give the country a war it didn’t need. Any Read More
Barack Obama’s Presidency is less than a year old, and he has already found himself on the roller coaster ride of American politics, media and celebrity. It must have been a pleasant surprise to wake to the news on October 9th that he had been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. While it will be derided Read More
John Edwards could have taken the Jim Webb route when NPR grilled him yesterday about his interest in reprising his role as the Democratic vice presidential nominee, but instead he said this: "I am prepared to seriously consider anything, anything he asks me to do for our country."
If Barack Obama were Read More
Last Monday, Jan. 30, marked the 124th birthday of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Sixty years after his death, nearly everyone has forgotten how close we came to never having him as a President.
In 1928, I was a 15-year-old political junkie living in Bensonhurst. The Democrats nominated New York Governor Al Smith for the Read More
Last Monday, Jan. 30, marked the 124th birthday of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Sixty years after his death, nearly everyone has forgotten how close we came to never having him as a President.
In 1928, I was a 15-year-old political junkie living in Bensonhurst. The Democrats nominated New York Governor Al Smith for the Presidency, the Read More
In the latest in a string of process-related announcements, Ed Cox will be rolling out an exploratory committee on Wednesday for his Senate challenge to Hillary Clinton.
The advisory didn’t say who would actually be exploring the possibility of putting Richard Nixon’s son-in-law in the Senate, but the M.C. named for Wednesday’s event at Read More
If for nothing else, Bush II should find a place in history as the guy who dropped the bunker-buster on the Garden of Eden. It’s not everybody who can lay claim to having destroyed the Mesopotamian cradle of Western Civ, but given the administration’s indifference to the past (i.e., “old Europe” vs. “new Europe”), you Read More
Theodore Rex , by Edmund Morris. Random House, 864 pages, $35.
Almost exactly one century before Sept. 11, an act of terror rocked the state of New York and struck at the heart of American government. On Sept. 5, 1901, as President William McKinley was speaking on world trade at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, Read More
We’re coming up on Super Bowl time again, after which
football will drop out of sight until next autumn. Or perhaps I should say ought to drop out of sight, but may not
if well-known players are arrested for murder and lesser crimes, as was the
case in 2000, which seemed to be a particularly Read More
Teddy Roosevelt, all barrel of chest and pince of nez, dropped by the living room the other day, courtesy of the folks who run public television. Now there was a man who enjoyed politics and government and power. There was none of the silly pretense that he “entered public service” because he was “looking to Read More
