The Last Angry Man
Jeff Kisseloff : Books
Eliot Asinof, blacklisted author of Eight Men Out, created a lifetime of work celebrating rebels and victims of injustice.
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City of Fear
Jon Wiener
A new book explores the historical ties between African-American and Japanese-American communities in Los Angeles.
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The Reminder-General
Stefan Collini
Tony Judt fears the twenty-first century has spawned a culture hell- bent on forgetting the past.
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Sweet Martin's Badass Song
Scott Saul : Non-Fiction
Several new books on Martin Luther King take a closer look at the rhetoric and economic politics of the civil rights icon.
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Dreaming Obama in North Carolina
Tom Hayden
Conversations with historian John Hope Franklin and civil rights heroes about race, memory and the possibility of change.
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Back Talk: Nicholson Baker
Christine Smallwood
In the debut of a new biweekly series, the author of Human Smoke discusses pacifism and World War II.
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Iraq's Ruined Library Soldiers On
R.H. Lossin : Iraq War
Five years ago this week, US troops stood by as mobs sacked Iraq's revered National Library and Archives. Despite little outside help, a cultural treasure soldiers on.
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Suffragist City
Mary Beth Norton : Feminism & Women
Two new books examine the history of the first women's rights campaign.
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A Neo-Deal
William Alexander Organek : Activism & Organizing
The new positive rights of the twenty-first century.
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A Modern Government
Max Rose : Activism & Organizing
We must embrace the universal benefits of a government dedicated to preparing citizens for acompetitive and unpredictable world.
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Questions of Loyalty
Matt Steinglass : Vietnam War
Revisionist histories of the Vietnam War challenge the notion that the South Vietnam government was a dysfunctional pseudo-state.
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The Way Forward
Kirti Datla : Activism & Organizing
The New Deal demonstrated the power of government to address failures of the market, and to retreat once it was no longer needed
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When and How?
John West : Activism & Organizing
The ethos of the New Deal is only more prescient and pressing today.
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The Change We Wish to See
Grant Resick : Student Movements
Real change cannot come from the top down alone; it must rise up from the bottom as well.
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Hard Times
Kim Phillips-Fein
Amity Schlaes's history of the Great Depression is nothing less than an attempt to reclaim the 1930s for the free market.
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Ordinary People
Robin Einhorn
Woody Holton's history of America's origins celebrates the contributions of the common people.
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Beyond the New Deal
Howard Zinn : Progressives, Liberals, & The American Left
How refreshing it would be if a presidential candidate reminded us of the experience of the New Deal.
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Democratizing Capital
Sherle R. Schwenninger : Globalization
New Deal progressives believed the economy should exist to serve society, not the other way around.
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Potent Publics
Anna Deavere Smith : Progressives, Liberals, & The American Left
The US public is wonderfully diverse, but the arts are not equally accessible to all.
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Labor's New Deal
Andy Stern : Budget
Where the New Deal once served to rebalance the power between labor and capital, we are now perilously out of balance.
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For the 'FDR'
Rev. Jesse L. Jackson : Jesse Jackson
The Bush Administration's solutions for the subprime mortgage crisis are too little, too late. Americans need a New Deal-style agency to manage domestic reconstruction.
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Race and the New Deal Coalition
Adolph Reed Jr. : African-Americans
Most New Deal programs were anything but race- and gender-neutral in their impact. They were both racially discrminatory and a boon to many black Americans.
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The Only Fitting Tribute
Frances Moore Lappé : Economic Policy
For Roosevelt, the New Deal was a way of advancing freedom, which depended on economic as much as political rights.
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The Bare Minimum
Eric Schlosser : Wages & Hours
Today's relentless arguments against a higher minimum wage suggest that Roosevelt's battle is not yet won.
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A Chaos of Experimentation
Andrea Batista Schlesinger : U.S. Economy
The New Deal spirit of "persistent experimentation" yielded impressive results for the country. American leaders can recapture that spirit.
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A Green Corps
Bill McKibben : Environment
The New Deal brought with it programs that served not only the good of the people and the economy but also the environment. We need that now more than ever.
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Why the New Deal Matters
Richard Parker : Progressives, Liberals, & The American Left
What was it about the New Deal and Roosevelt that make the man and the era relevant today?
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Toward a New New Deal (Forum)
The Editors : Progressives, Liberals, & The American Left
To commemorate the seventy-fifth anniversary of the New Deal, The Nation invited a panel of activists, writers, scholars and artists to reflect on its lasting lessons.
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Final Fantasy
David Waldstreicher : Terrorism Targeting the US
Susan Faludi's Terror Dream made a provocative splash, but therapy is no substitute for understanding reality.
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Tracing Slavery's Past
Te-Ping Chen : Film
On the bicentennial of the abolition of the slave trade, a documentarian tries to come to grips with her family's history in the trade.
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The Faith of Roosevelt
The Editors : Economic Policy
"To achieve 'social values more noble than mere monetary profit,' to 'keep the money changers permanently out of the temple of our civilization'...would be to transform America."
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The Two Nuernbergs
Peter de Mendelssohn : World War II
Awaiting trial for the Nazi atrocities were "twenty shabby men... a ragged, spiritless, motley crew of second-rate characters": Ribbentrop, Hiss, Göring...
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The Old Revolutionaries of Vietnam
Tom Hayden : Vietnam
Thirty-two years after the war, Communist Vietnam is a bustling market economy awash in foreign capital and consumer goods. So was the war necessary?
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The History of Hope
Peter Dreier : Barack Obama
Voters drawn to Barack Obama are often criticized as naive. But appeals to our collective hope for a more decent society are core to the American experience.
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Revolutionary States
Ronald Grigor Suny : Russia
Two new books take a closer look at the "Soviet monster" in an age of lazy, anti-Communist rhetoric.
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The Ice Forge
Jochen Hellbeck : Russia
The generation that came of age in Stalin's Russia was torn between perpetual fear and profound emotional investment in the Soviet ideal.
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An Unconventional Convention
Oswald Garrison Villard : Political Parties
On Saturday, June 27, 1924, "men and women suddenly rose up after days of utterly degraded and demoralizing vaudeville performances to declaim with passion about two big subjects."
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Green Days
Anson Rabinbach : Foreign Leaders & Political Figures
The biography of Joschka Fischer tells the story of postwar Germany.
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Rambling Man
Mark Mazower : Europe
A modern-day Rip Van Winkle challenges the view that Europeans are too wrapped up in their past to move on.
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A Conversation with Taylor Branch
Bruce Wallace : Martin Luther King Jr.
MLK's biographer on presidents, politics, racial injustice, poverty and war.
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Little Ships of Horror
Christopher Leslie Brown : Slavery in America
Marcus Rediker's breathtaking "human history" of the slave ship reveals how the transatlantic slave trade demeaned everyone it touched.
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Battle Pieces
Eric Foner : US Wars & Military Action
In This Republic of Suffering, historian Drew Gilpin Faust strips from the Civil War any purpose beyond massive slaughter.
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United We Scam
Steve Fraser : U.S. Economy
Two new books profile the generation of counterfeiters and con men who sprouted up in Jacksonian-era America.
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Christianizing US History
Chris Hedges : Radical Religious Right
With House Resolution 888, the religious right seeks to rewrite American history, turning the founding fathers from deists to Christian fundamentalists.
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Castro Helps Chávez Avert a Coup
: Cuba
An excerpt from Fidel Castro: My Life, a spoken autobiography.
2007
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Dark Rooms
Susie Linfield : Media Analysis
The photographers who documented the Spanish Civil War captured the heart of battle in ways that now seem iconic but were then radically new.
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Terra Incognita
A mosaic of anecdotes and historical snapshots surveys the sociological diversity of France, past and present.
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Moyers & FDR
When Franklin Delano Roosevelt was President, my father knew he had a friend in the White House. We should rekindle that spirit today.
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The Thinking Person's Reader's Digest
Evan Cornog : Journalists & Journalism
Lapham's Quarterly makes its debut, seeking to explain the present with illuminations from the past.
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Reading Lincoln in Pakistan
Pervez Musharraf wraps himself in Lincoln's mantle, but no one is fooled.
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Thieves of Black History
Gary Younge : African-Americans
In the struggle over the ownership of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, black history is on sale at bargain prices.
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Ink-Stained Marx
A look at the cantankerous dispatches he wrote as London correspondent for the New York Tribune puts the father of communism in a new light.
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The Best Wars of Their Lives
A historian plugs some suspicious gaps in two revisionist histories of Vietnam.
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The Uninvited Guest
Juan Cole's Napoleon's Egypt examines the little dictator's doomed attempt to occupy an Arab country.
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The Madness of 'King' George
Simon Prentis : George W. Bush
If the President is allowed to invoke the divine right of kings, the American Revolution will have come full circle.
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New Orleans Is Us
If the American people continue to avert their eyes from the slow death of an abandoned city, their communities may soon be next to fail.
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Sacco & Vanzetti Today
Moshik Temkin : Human Rights & Civil Liberties
History sheds no new light on their guilt or innocence. But it does make clear that their trial and execution was an unjust and intolerable act of barbarism.
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The Lives of Others
Carla Kaplan : Cultural Criticism & Analysis
Lois Gordon's new biography of Nancy Cunard brings the legendary heiress and activist back to life.
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I'm Not the Man I Used to Be
The reasons for Günter Grass's silence about his membership in the Waffen SS remain safely hidden in his new memoir.
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King George W.: James Madison's Nightmare
Robert Scheer : George W. Bush Administration
This is the bellicose imperial presidency the authors of our Constitution warned us about.
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Vertical Disintegration
James Ron : Israeli/Palestinian Conflict
A new take on Israel/Palestine: Could Israel's architecture be the solution to the insoluble disputes?
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The Iranian Impasse
Janet Afary & Kevin B. Anderson : Islam & Muslims
Five new books explore the failed progressive movements in Iran, and the dilemma the US left faces today.
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Nixon's Broadway Revival
Peter Morgan's new play is highly entertaining; Frank Langella's portrait of Nixon is brutally amusing; yet the play is historically inaccurate.
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Who's Afraid of History?
Official Washington wants to avoid the "divisive ordeal" of looking at what went wrong in Iraq. But upcoming hearings for Admiral Michael Mullins' nomination as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is the perfect opportunity.
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While We Slept
A new book on the history of Western complicity in Iraq takes an unsparing look at how the first Bush and Clinton administrations set the stage for disaster.
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A Peaceful Mother's Day
Mother's Day was originally conceived to recognize the power of women to be instruments of peace.
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America's Idiotic Political Debates
Nicholas von Hoffman : Electoral Politics
All France was transfixed as presidential candidates conducted a passionate, freewheeling debate this week. Why are American debates so intentionally stupid?
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Ferdinand VII
Whose astonishing wisdom led to preserving a statue of the monstrous Ferdinand VII in Havana?
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Mission Impossible
Three Empires on the Nile, a lively retelling of Britain's colonial exploits in Africa, conjures up images of wild-eyed Arabs waging jihad in the desert.
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Inevitable Revolutions
In William Dalrymple's The Last Mughal, the 1857 Uprising against British rule in India is recast as a cross-border friendship gone sour.
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Guantánamo, Dred Scott and the Amistad
Jeremy Brecher & Brendan Smith : Supreme Court
The US Supreme Court should look back on its most regrettable and most courageous decisions.
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Schlesinger & The Nation
Remembering an eminent activist historian whose passing has left the public sphere much poorer.
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Lincoln's Antiwar Record
Looking for a model lawmaker who called a President to account for launching a war on fabricated grounds? Consider Illinois Representative Abraham Lincoln's rebuke of James Polk.
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Liberalism's Lost Libretto
Tom Stoppard's epic Coast of Utopia speaks as much to the state of the American left as it does to the roots of Russia's revolution.
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White History 101
Gary Younge : Race, Ethnicity & Religion
Why can't white people and black people have access to a shared history that is accurate, honest, antiracist and inclusive?
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Terror at the Nixon Library
Jon Wiener : Terrorism Targeting the US
A new exhibit inadvertently displays why Americans might be confused about what terrorism is and how to fight it.
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A Pillar of American Justice
Charles A. Miller : Supreme Court
The legal philosophy of Louis Brandeis illuminates some of the compelling legal issues of our own times.
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Savage Wars of Peace
Ruth Scurr reviews The First Total War, a study of Napoleonic France that illuminates the causes of all-out war.
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Self-Consciousness Raising
What is the self? Do we all have one? Is it best treated with Botox or with books? Bohemian Los Angeles explains it all.
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Greater Than Warren Harding?
Alexander Cockburn : Journalists & Journalism
On Gerald Ford's greatness and the New York Times's ghastly coverage of Iraq.
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Ford, Nixon, The Nation
The story behind the story of Gerald Ford's pardon of Nixon.
2006
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The Soviet Union, R.I.P.?
The collapse of the Soviet Union was far from inevitable: A historic opportunity to democratize and marketize Russia by more gradual means was lost--and the people paid the price.
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God's Willing Executioners
God's War explores the barbaric clash of Christianity and Islam, and what happens when people follow religious voices that no one else can hear.
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The Lessons of History
John Hope Franklin : Spoken Word
While there may be something great about winning a war, the United States must learn there is something much greater about using the tools of peacemaking to build a better world.
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What Bush Has Wrought
Robert Scheer : Electoral Politics
We are now led by a false warrior who acts the simpleton, while playing to his version of what Middle America wants. To stop the madness, on November 7 voters must soundly repudiate what Bush has wrought.
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The New World Order
Two new books examine the diverse and ambitious alliances that led to the end of slavery in America.
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Marie Antoinette, the Upspeak Version
It doesn't matter that Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette is a dreadful film, but it is alarming that the past is increasingly seen as a place in which the most important thing of all is who's, like, famous.
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Death in the Family
Gideon Lewis-Kraus : Autobiography & Memoir
Daniel Mendelsohn's The Lost represents one man's search to find the truth about himself, his family and the Holocaust.
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Nuremberg: Past, Present and Future
Sen. Christopher Dodd : Constitutional Questions
Let us follow the example set by the judges and prosecutors who pursued justice in the Nuremberg Trials to lead America back to a reverence for the rule of law and the common good.
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America, Through a Glass Darkly
An intellectual biography of Richard Hofstadter rides a wave of nostalgia for this artful historian and liberal icon of the 1950s and '60s.
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Father Knows Best
Have you attacked the Founding Fathers lately? Know anyone who has? Gordon Wood knows you're out there, on a campaign to dehumanize Washington, Jefferson and their peers.
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Ottoman Ghosts
Caroline Finkel's new book, Osman's Dream, explores the rise and calamitous fall of the Ottoman Empire.
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Too Late for Empire
Jonathan Schell : US Politics & Government
Thirty years after Watergate, we again face a constitutional crisis at home and a misconceived war abroad. The United States will remain a helpless giant until we finally learn that power in the nuclear, postimperial age is diplomatic, not military.
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The Chinese Evolution
Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom : China
Three new books on China invite the West to give up simplistic dreams and nightmares and come to terms with a complex and rapidly evolving authoritarian state.
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Same Old Song
Daniel Tichenor : Immigration to the US
American history is marked by waves of immigrants--from Germans in the eighteenth century to Mexicans in the twenty-first--and by nativist backlashes against them.
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Too Late for Empire
Jonathan Schell : US Foreign Policy
Thirty years after Watergate, we again face a constitutional crisis at home and a misconceived war abroad. The United States will remain a helpless giant until we finally learn that power in the nuclear, postimperial age is diplomatic, not military.
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Guernica, Again
Nicholas von Hoffman : Fine Art
The targeting of civilians in Gaza and Lebanon summons the image of Picasso's wrenching mural that memorialized innocents caught in the crossfire.
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We Are the World
David Rieff : US Foreign Policy
When liberals and conservatives discuss the United States' role in the world, they are really talking about the narcissism of small differences. Two new books show how both sides share a conviction in American exceptionalism.
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Frank Church's Quixotic Vision
Forrest Church : Democratic Party
A Father's Day remembrance of a courageous politician who, in an earlier era, challenged America to resist the apostles of fear who would barter liberty for false security.
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Road to Perdition
A nearly forgotten criminal conspiracy by GM, Firestone and Chevron shut down the nation's municipal railways, replacing them with gas-guzzling bus lines, paving the way for global warming and for our energy crisis.
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Anatomy of a Murder
David Bradley : Racism & Discrimination
Cynthia Carr's Our Town seeks to uncover hidden truths about a 1930 lynching in small-town Indiana. But Carr fails to break the code of silence that many of the town's inhabitants, including her grandparents, took to the grave.
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For Reasons of State
Two new books on the French Revolution examine Robespierre's role in advocating terror as an instrument of government, raising compelling questions about state-sponsored terror in our own time.
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The Composer's Craft
In Stravinsky, the Second Exile, Stephen Walsh chronicles the composer's late years, disentangling the realities of his life and work from the published assertions of a self-serving assistant.
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Love in the Ruins
Irène Némirovsky's Suite Française, published fifty-two years after she perished at Auschwitz, offers an unsparing critique of France under the German occupation and raises questions about the compromises she made.
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Bonding With the Babe
Bashing Barry Bonds has become a national sport, as the flawed slugger nears matching Babe Ruth's record. But hasn't anyone considered the faults of the Babe?
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On Native Grounds
Daniel Lazare : Native Americans
Alan Taylor's Divided Ground examines how land-grabbing settlers destroyed Indian society and how postrevolutionary politicians speeded their demise.
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John Kenneth Galbraith
Longtime Nation Associate John Kenneth Galbraith is best remembered not only as a New Dealer, old-line liberal or Keynesian economist but as a contrarian and independent thinker.
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Remember 'The Jungle'!
Kevin Mattson : Books, Literature, & Ideas
As Upton Sinclair's novel turns 100, it reminds us that the best way to nurture pride in America is to see its underbelly--and tell the truth about it.
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Experimental Art
Alan Lightman makes scientists into artists in his new book The Discoveries, promoting original journal articles as "the great novels and symphonies of science."
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Crowds and Power
In Death in the Haymarket James Green uses the story of the Haymarket riot to expose the hopes and fears of nineteenth-century America, a nation living on the knife-edge of social catastrophe.
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Labor Pains
Robert Fitch's Solidarity for Sale exposes corruption as the cause of the current crisis in American labor.
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The Man Who Heard It All
Richard Taruskin's Oxford History of Western Music reviews the world of Western art music, expressing the magnificence and melancholy of its own age.
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Emotional Truth
Patricia J. Williams : Race, Ethnicity & Religion
In a DNA-driven search for biological roots, it behooves us to be less romantic about connecting with our ancestors. If we biologize our history, we will be forever less than we could be.
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Historians Target Iraq War
Historians and activists join forces in Texas this weekend to explore how the tools of historical analysis can bolster the case for an immediate end to the war in Iraq.
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The Race to War
David Levering Lewis : Racism & Discrimination
Lost Battalions tells the story of two US Army regiments of the American Expeditionary Force, the struggle to buy citizenship through the self-sacrifice of war.
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President Jonah
As his State of the Union message approaches, we deserve a rest from the fundamentalist presidency of G.W. Bush, whose guiding principles are antithetical to democracy and will only accelerate our decline.
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In Her Mind's Eye
Hannah Arendt's The Origins of Totalitarianism is a political classic trapped in the era in which it was written.
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Easier Said Than Done
Kwame Anthony Appiah's Cosmopolitanism explores the middle ground between the universal laws of liberalism and relativism's blind respect for all differences.
2005
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Europa, Europa
Tony Judt's Postwar, a massive summary of European public life since World War II, is a triumph of narrative that will allow readers familiar with the history to experience it again.
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Gene McCarthy
Eugene McCarthy was a pure original, a great and good man, whose fundamental historical achievement was to be the standard-bearer for a moral and philosophical campaign against the Vietnam War.
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The Faith of Eugene McCarthy
Robert Sherrill : Democratic Party
Eugene McCarthy, the Minnesota senator, frequent presidential candidate and poet who died Saturday at age 89, never had a chance at the Democratic nomination in 1968. But his passionate anti-Vietnam war campaign would change the course of the war.
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Remembering Eugene McCarthy
Eugene McCarthy's political life was full of contradictions: A conventional cold war liberal and fierce anti-Communist, in the Vietnam era, he was transformed into the standard-bearer of the liberal antiwar movement, a true hero.
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The Outsider
Colman McCarthy : Peace Activism
Dorothy Day, founder of the Catholic Worker movement, died 25 years ago this month. Today Catholic Workers are in Cuba, keeping vigil outside the US Naval Prison at Guantanamo Bay and keep a vigil for detainees. This Colman McCarthy meditation on Day's funeral sheds light on Catholic Workers as a political and social force.
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John Lennon Has a Legacy
: Music
John Lennon opened up rock-and-roll to politics, and in an innocent, impulsive way, he worked for peace. When he died, his fans, no longer teenagers, mourned as though a President had been killed. From the December 20, 1980, edition of The Nation.
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Letter of the Law
America's Constitution: A Biography examines America's obsession with the Constitution--its origins, evolution and interpretation.
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The Chosen People
Daniel Lazare : Judaism & Jews
The Jewish Century defies the conventional view of Jews as outsiders and traces their symbiotic relationship with Christians. A History of the Jews in the Modern World follows the impact the multitude of journeys that Diaspora Jews have taken on countries in the modern era.
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Profane Illuminations
New biographies of Rousseau and Voltaire help us appreciate how very fragile the eighteenth century's great movement of ideas was, and how remarkable it is that the Enlightenment not only survived but flourished.
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The Hidden History of Slavery in New York
Adele Oltman : Slavery in America
Those who believe that slavery in America was strictly a "Southern thing" will discover an eye-opening historical record on display at the New-York Historical Society's current exhibition, "Slavery in New York."
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Over My Dead Body
New biographies of Benito Mussolini and Marilyn Monroe contemplate exploitation of the body--in life and after death.
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Another Country
Chronicling the final, devastating months of the Civil War, E.L. Doctorow's new novel, The March, reveals the author's complex love for an earlier version of America.
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Frontier Injustice
In Andrew Jackson: A Life and Times, the frontier president is cast as a one-man beacon for democracy. But Jackson's core belief was a fervent defense of land.
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The American Political Tradition
The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln expertly balances the roots of a political revolution: the impact of a few key leaders and the lives and aspirations of ordinary citizens engaging with the government for the first time.
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The First Time Was Tragedy...
Eric Alterman : George W. Bush
As the Bush Administration's incompetence turns Iraq into a terrorist training camp, Americans should look to FDR, who waged war for unavoidable threats, not ideology, while still fostering good will among US allies.
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Fighting the Abyss
Although The Aesthetics of Resistance delves into leftist notions of art and class struggle, this account of an anti-Nazi youth group in Germany seems outdated now.
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Levee Town
Alexander Cockburn : Supreme Court
There are decades of memos from engineers and contractors setting forth budgets to build up the Gulf Coast's levees, but Bush wouldn't let them be.
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Bread, Roses and the Flood
Eric Foner : George W. Bush Administration
The only bright spot in this man-made disaster has been the wave of public outrage at the Administration's failure to provide aid to the most vulnerable.
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America's Imaginary Frontier
Norman Birnbaum : George W. Bush
America's narcissism and willful blindness to its own moral failings have been placed in sharp relief as the nation fitfully responds to the needs of storm victims.
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Robert Kaplan: Empire Without Apologies
Andrew J. Bacevich : Non-Fiction
In his new book, Robert Kaplan proposes that the antidote to anarchy is empire, policed by soldiers holding an assault rifle in one hand and candy bars in the other.
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Desert Storm
This might be a good time for the Bush Administration to step up its reading on Saudi Arabia, starting with these three books.
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The Power of Outrage
A nation's conscience is stirred by the abandonment of the poor and the frail: This may be the one bright spot of the man-made disaster on the Gulf Coast. Eric Foner gives a history lesson.
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Optimism of the Will
Mike Davis : Journalists & Journalism
The rich legacy of former Nation editor and activist Carey McWilliams is on full display in three books.
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Patriotic Bore
Two recent books on Tom Paine and on the unruly birth of US democracy reveal that liberal historians have become believers in the 'radicalism' of the American Revolution.
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An Acquired Taste
The story of the American products, producers and salesman that took over Europe in the last century.
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The Heritage Foundation
Paul Johnson and Christopher Hitchens's new books on the Founding Fathers.
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Terkel Talks
Jonathan Cott : Cultural Criticism & Analysis
Studs diagnoses a national Alzheimer's disease.
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The Lincoln Museum and Springfield's Shame
Adrian Brune : African-Americans
Visiting the Lincoln Museum and exposing a dark chapter in the town's history.
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Bin Laden's Nuclear Connection
Kai Bird & Martin J. Sherwin : Nuclear Arms & Proliferation
If America had agreed to a nuclear-free world, we wouldn't face threats today.
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Our Godless Constitution
Brooke Allen : US Politics & Government
The faith of our Founding Fathers definitely wasn't Christianity.
2004
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Days of Rage
It has been more than two decades since the Iran hostage crisis drove a permanent wedge between the US and its former ally Iran.
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When Presidents Lie
Eric Alterman : US Politics & Government
Official dishonesty is never worthwhile.
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Last Aid to Voters
: Presidential Campaigns & Elections
This essay, from the October 27, 1920, issue of The Nation, is a special selection from The Nation Digital Archive. If you want to read everything The Nation has ever published on presidential politics, click here for information on how to acquire individual access to the Archive--an electronic database of every Nation article since 1865.
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The Bush Crusade
James Carroll : War on Terrorism
Sacred violence, again unleashed in 2001, could prove as destructive as in 1096.
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Everybody's Talking About the Weather
The last few years have seen renewed interest in the Weathermen.
2003
2002
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Changing History
September 11 will undoubtedly lead historians to examine more closely the history of the US relationship with the rest of the world.
2000
1999
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