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Lawrence
Max Boot • Invisible Armies
Altogether, Howe dispatched more than eleven thousand letters on FDR’s behalf.
Jean Edward Smith • FDR
Perkins spent the twelve years of Roosevelt’s presidency doing more than anyone other than FDR himself to make the New Deal a reality. Everything on her list became law, most notably social security, changing the basic relation of Americans to their government. She also desegregated the Labor Department cafeteria, tried (and failed) to bring large
... See moreGeorge Packer • Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal
Imperial Hospitality
Adria L. Imada • Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire
The tourists, however, were now soldiers.
Adria L. Imada • Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire
“But we are the good guys. Aren’t we, Uncle?” “I hope so. I hope we are.”
Anthony Doerr • All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel
Alaska sent to the Senate Ernest Gruening, who had made a decades-long career of opposing racism and imperialism. In 1964 Gruening achieved national fame as one of only two congressmen—out of 506 voting—to oppose the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution that led to the direct U.S. entry into the Vietnam War.
Daniel Immerwahr • How to Hide an Empire
