New Wars and Revolutions – Demobilisation I THE GREAT WAR January 1919
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The Neanderthals That Taught Us About Humanity
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Will We Survive Mars? – Glad You Asked S1
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Betty White on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson 1981
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Remembering 1937
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When the “Great Recession” hit, many comparisons were made with the “Great Depression” (see Eichengreen and O´Rourke Vox columns which according to the editor shattered all Vox readership records with over 450,000 views). Eight years after the 2007 peak, now there are “reminders” of 1937, also eight years after the 1929 peak!
Robert Samuelson has a piece:
How fast should the Federal Reserve tighten monetary policy? Should it tighten at all? I recently wrote about these issues but didn’t have the space to explore a fascinating aspect of the debate: the mostly forgotten 1937-38 recession. To many, it’s a cautionary tale against adopting tighter policies too soon. The latest to sound the alarm is Ray Dalio, the respected founder of Bridgewater Associates, a huge hedge fund group. His recent memo to clients inspired a Page 1 story in the Financial Times, headlined “Dalio warns Fed of 1937-style rate risk.”
And…
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Review of “The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X” by Les and Tamara Payne
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“The most noteworthy revelation of the biography, however, concerns Malcolm X’s meeting with the Ku Klux Klan in 1961 to discuss the Nation of Islam’s shared opposition to integration and the possibility of working with the KKK to form a “separate state” for black Americans. The two-dozen pages covering this secret summit (which took place at another Nation of Islam minister’s home in Atlanta) are absolutely surreal.”
The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X
by Les and Tamara Payne
612 pages
Liveright (W.W. Norton)
Published: October 2020
[On June 11 “The Dead Are Arising” was awarded the 2021 Pulitzer Prize in biography]
Published last fall, “The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X” is the result of nearly three decades of work by Les Payne. Following his death in 2018 – with the manuscript nearly finished – his daughter (and primary research assistant) completed the book. Les Payne was a former U.S. Army Ranger and a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and editor at Newsday.
Payne’s background as an investigative journalist will not come as a surprise to readers of this exquisitely-researched biography. Payne interviewed hundreds of people including nearly everyone he could find who knew Malcolm X (born Malcolm Little): childhood friends, classmates, cellmates, colleagues, family members and neighbors. His…
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Review of “The Hopkins Touch: Harry Hopkins and the Forging of the Alliance to Defeat Hitler” by David Roll
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The Hopkins Touch: Harry Hopkins and the Forging of the Alliance to Defeat Hitler
by David Roll
520 pages
Oxford University Press
Published: Jan 2013
“The Hopkins Touch: Harry Hopkins and the Forging of the Alliance to Defeat Hitler” by David Roll was published in 2013. Roll is a senior partner at Steptoe & Johnson (a DC-based law firm) and previously served as Assistant Director of the Federal Trade Commission. He is also the author of a biography of General George Marshall which I read earlier this year.
Readers acquainting themselves with Franklin Roosevelt invariably become enamored with two people central to FDR’s orbit: Eleanor Roosevelt and Harry Hopkins. I read David Michaelis’s biography of Eleanor shortly after its release in 2020. And I’ve finally gotten around to this somewhat older – but marvelously compelling – biography of FDR’s closest political advisor.
Harry Hopkins (1890-1946) began his professional…
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