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Fletcher Knebel’s novel has much to say about the fragility of our democratic institutions and the dangers of unchecked authority.
Presidents generally don’t sway the public on education issues – except when they take a stance that separates them from their party.
Trump and the movement behind him is both new and old. Times are unprecedented but also, to historians of America, frighteningly familiar. Nick Bryant’s book excavates that history.
While President Joe Biden has low approval ratings, few other American presidents − with the exception of FDR and Warren Harding − have experienced such a run of good media luck.
Americans have long nurtured mixed feelings about age and aged leaders. Yet during the country’s founding, a young America admired venerable old sages.
Mary Washington raised George and his four siblings mainly alone, imbuing in George many of his best traits. Historians have focused instead on George’s complaints about her.
For much of American history, the only December holiday to be recognized in the White House was Christmas, but menorah lightings are now an annual tradition.
Some presidents have lied for honorable reasons, while for others the lies have been simply self-serving.
Unlike many of his predecessors, the US president is no vulture of culture.
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