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FDL Book Salon Welcomes Rick Perlstein, Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America

Thanks, Eric. And thanks to Jane and FDL for their longtime support. Hi, all, and welcome. Hey Rick, I have a question to start. So, the paperback of Nixonland is just out now — and everyone who can buy it, of course should — but the hardback came out ...

From ERIC RAUCHWAY, Firedoglake,  25 Apr 2009
Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party,  Rick Perlstein,  Ronald Reagan,  Barack Obama,  Pat Buchanan

'Nothing to Fear,' by Adam Cohen

On March 4, 1933, Franklin Roosevelt began his presidency and, with a group of key advisers and a cooperative Congress, made the White House into a Catherine wheel of Depression-fighting policies, shooting sparks in all directions. The New Deal ...

From ERIC RAUCHWAY, San Francisco Chronicle,  18 Jan 2009
Related Topics: U.S. Congress,  White House,  Henry A. Wallace,  National Rifle Association,  John Kenneth Galbraith

Fedora Aside, Why Indiana Jones Is An Emblem Of Americanism

After the first big action sequence in the new Indiana Jones movie, the camera stares from behind Jones as he regards, helplessly, one of the monstrous icons of the 1950s; after the last big action sequence in the film, the camera stares from behind ...

From ERIC RAUCHWAY, The New Republic,  31 May 2008
Related Topics: Davy Crockett

Will John McCain Undo A Half-Century Of U.S.-Led Internationalism?

The 1938 trade agreement reversed both the older American tradition of protective tariffs and the more recent, Depression-fostered stance of autarky. Its architect, Secretary of State Cordell Hull, always meant the agreement to amount to more than a ...

From ERIC RAUCHWAY, The New Republic,  5 May 2008
Related Topics: John McCain,  NATO,  United Nations,  Richard Nixon,  George W. Bush

Right Now, We Need Liberals

Barack Obama is a liberal Hillary Clinton wants you to know this now; if Obama gets the nomination, John McCain assuredly will, too. "Liberal" has had bad connotations ever since the Vietnam era, when conservatives successfully branded their opponents ...

From ERIC RAUCHWAY, The New Republic,  4 Apr 2008
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Democratic Leadership Council,  U.S. Democratic Party,  U.S. Republican Party,  Hillary Rodham Clinton

Obama As Teddy Roosevelt? Hillary As William Howard Taft?

With Barack Obama winning 11 contests since Super Tuesday, and appearing well on his way to winning a clear majority of elected delegates, it looks unlikely that Hillary Clinton could win the Democratic nomination without depending on the unelected ...

From ERIC RAUCHWAY, The New Republic,  4 Mar 2008
Related Topics: William Howard Taft,  U.S. Republican Party,  Barack Obama,  Hillary Rodham Clinton,  U.S. Democratic Party

George Bush Tries To Finish What Richard Nixon Started

Last week the Bush administration reached its Nixonian climax, as CIA director Michael Hayden confirmed that the government had nearly drowned some people on purpose using techniques that American military men have long known as torture. Attorney ...

From ERIC RAUCHWAY, The New Republic,  14 Feb 2008
Related Topics: George W. Bush,  U.S. Congress,  White House,  U.S. Republican Party,  U.S. Democratic Party

The Thing About Republicans, See, Is That They're Terrible At Governing. Just Look At Their History.

If the mixed results in the early Republican primaries--a Huckabee here, a McCain or Romney there--portends a split between the GOP's religious, fiscally conservative, and security-state wings, it won't be the first time a national American political ...

From ERIC RAUCHWAY, The New Republic,  30 Jan 2008
Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party,  U.S. Congress,  White House,  John McCain,  William Howard Taft

The (Interestingly Accumulated) Wealth of Nations

Lots of big histories read rather like compendia of colorful occurrences--lists of Good and Bad Things, in Sellar and Yeatman's formulation. But the last decade has seen a surge in ambitious histories that not only cover a lot of ground, but also offer ...

From ERIC RAUCHWAY, The New Republic,  15 Jan 2008
Related Topics: Jared Diamond,  Greg Clark,  Niall Ferguson

Damn Dirty Hippies!

The New Republic by Eric Rauchway Just because Tom Brokaw's dad says hippies are responsible for the U.S. going Republican doesn't make it so. Post Date Wednesday, December 12, 2007 The key moment in the History Channel's "1968 with Tom Brokaw" comes ...

From ERIC RAUCHWAY, The New Republic,  13 Dec 2007
Related Topics: U.S. Democratic Party,  Richard Nixon,  U.S. Republican Party,  Tom Brokaw,  George Wallace

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