CAMPAIGN
2008 WATCH: | PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN 2008 WATCH:- Thomas Whalen: Closing in on Democratic nomination (Interview) -
NECN, MA, 6-2-08
- Thurston Clarke on"Kennedy torch fires Obama's passion Charismatic and inspiring politicians":
Mr. Obama and Kennedy campaigned at"a time of moral crisis" in the United States, says Thurston Clarke,
author of The Last Campaign: Robert F. Kennedy and 82 Days that Inspired America."We have a similar situation with
an unpopular war and a increasingly unpopular president," he said."The Kennedy campaign has given us an example,
or even a template, of how a candidate should run for office at a time of national or moral crisis."
Kennedy did not make the mistake of focusing on the negative, Mr. Clarke says. The way Mr. Obama conducts
his campaign -- always rising above the fray, taking the high road when the Clintons take the low -- shows
he has learned his lessons well."If you want to heal a morally wounded nation, you can't run an immoral
campaign," he explained."He has this sense that Kennedy had that it is important how he campaigns if he want
to have a certain kind of presidency, if he wants to unite the nation....
Kennedy also projected an"aura of vulnerability" after his brother's death, said Mr. Clarke."Again and again,
you have people saying he looked so alone that you just wanted to hug him. That's not the case with Obama." -
National Post, 5-31-08
- Gil Troy on"Kennedy torch fires Obama's passion Charismatic and inspiring politicians":"Both the Kennedy and Obama candidacies have stirred great hope and both are hitting the same sweet spot
in the American political spectrum. Obama, like Kennedy, has shown an ability to embody a kind of apple-pie
liberalism that unites a broader swath of the American middle behind an inspirational crusade that seems more
hopeful and visionary than specifically ideological.... The big issue with him is not so much that he's black,
but that he's green." -
National Post, 5-31-08
|
|
BIGGEST STORIES: | BIGGEST STORIES: |
HNN STATS THIS WEEK: | HNN STATS THIS WEEK: |
THIS WEEK IN HISTORY: | |
IN THE NEWS: | IN THE NEWS:- QUEBEC CITY TUG OF WAR
Controversy rages between federalists and nationalists over the meaning of Quebec City's 400th birthday -
Canwest News Service, 6-2-08
- Mary Beard: Tests her Cambridge students about Diana biography -
Telegraph (UK), 5-30-08
- Conrad Black: Inmate turned professor -
National Post, 5-29-08
- Historians Provide Fresh Perspective on Current Events on New Radio Program -
Ascribe, 5-29-08
- Anthropology Association Urges Government to Tread Cautiously With 'Minerva' Project -
Chronicle of Higher Ed, 5-28-08
- Allen Weinstein: NARA Establishes"Controlled Unclassified Information Office" -
Lee White at the website of the National Coalition for History (NCH), 5-23-08
- Judas: Did a 'dream team' of biblical scholars mislead millions? -
Chronicle of Higher Ed, 5-30-08
- Joseph A. Massad: Palestinian-American Scholar at Columbia U. Gets 2nd Chance at Tenure -
Chronicle of Higher Ed, 5-27-08
- Lamar scholars bring Texas history into 20th century -
Lamar University, TX, 5-27-08
- Ed Renehan: Historian tied to 3 more missing Roosevelt artifacts -
Newsday, 5-26-08
- LDS Church historian concludes Brigham Young did not order 1857 massacre -
Deseret News, 5-24-08
- Norman Finkelstein: Author denied entry to Israel -
http://www.monstersandcritics.com, 5-23-08
|
REVIEWED AND FIRST CHAPTERS: | REVIEWED AND FIRST CHAPTERS:- Elizabeth Drew on Rick Perlstein:
POLITICS Angry Man Nixon's America was a land of rebellion and reaction
NIXONLAND
The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America -
WaPo, 6-1-08
- Rick Perlstein: NIXONLAND
The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America , First Chapter -
WaPo, 6-1-08
- James Rosen: POLITICS Mr. Law and Order
A biographer aims to restore the reputation of Nixon's attorney general
THE STRONG MAN John Mitchell and the Secrets of Watergate -
WaPo, 6-1-08
- NICHOLSON BAKER on Patricia Cline Cohen, Timothy J. Gilfoyle and Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz, in association with the American Antiquarian Society:
Sex and the City (Circa 1840)
THE FLASH PRESS Sporting Male Weeklies in 1840s New York -
NYT, 6-1-08
- Benny Morris: COVER REVIEW | ISRAEL A Miraculous Victory, An Open Wound
A controversial Israeli historian looks back at the 1948 war of independence
1948 A History of the First Arab-Israeli War
WaPo, 6-1-08
- Lewis H. Siegelbaum: 'Comrade Cars' From the U.S.S.R -
St.Petersburg Times.ru, Russia, 6-2-08
- Donald Keene: Recalls Meeting Greta Garbo! -
Chronicles of My Life: An American in the Heart of Japan, his memoir published by Oxford University Press (2008),
5-28-08
- Ronald Walters: Writes book about reparations -
U. of Mich. Press website, 5-26-08
- Robert Kagan vs. Francis Fukuyama -
Andrew Preston in the Globe and Mail (Canada), 5-24-08
|
OP-EDs: | OP-EDs: |
BLOGS: | BLOGS: |
PROFILED: | PROFILED: |
INTERVIEWS: | INTERVIEWS: |
FEATURES: | FEATURES: |
QUOTED: | QUOTED:- Deborah E. Lipstadt on"Holocaust historians blast MFA stance in legal dispute
Insist pressures of era led to Oskar Kokoschka's painting"Two Nudes's (Lovers)" sale":"To suggest, at that period in Vienna, that there was no pressure is ridiculous. It's ludicrous." -
Boston Globe, 5-28-08
- Gil Troy on"Kennedy torch fires Obama's passion Charismatic and inspiring politicians":"Bobby Kennedy himself was an incredibly complicated character. Bobby Kennedy became 'Good Bobby' completely
due to the trauma of his brother's assassination and was trying to fix the world." -
National Post, 5-31-08
|
HONORED / AWARDED / APPOINTED: | HONORED, AWARDED, APPOINTED: |
SPOTTED: | SPOTTED: |
CALENDAR: | CALENDAR:- May-September 2008: Elizabeth Brand Monroe, Deborah A. Lee, Lectures Showcase Leesburg's
History for 250th Anniversary -
WaPo, 1-18-08
- David Zabecki: Hooks up with Stephen Ambrose Tours / Zabecki will lead the 14-day tour to visit historic
World War II sites in Gdansk, Krakow, Warsaw and Berlin from May 16-30, 2008.-
Press Release--Stephen Ambrose Tours, 1-10-08
|
ON TV: | - PBS: American Experience LAS VEGAS: AN UNCONVENTIONAL HISTORY PART 1: SIN CITY
PBS -
Monday, June 2, 2008 @ 9pm ET
- PBS: American Experience LAS VEGAS: AN UNCONVENTIONAL HISTORY PART 2: AMERICAN MECCA
PBS -
Monday, June 9, 2008 @ 9pm ET
- History Channel:"Crime Wave: 18 Months of Mayhem",
Monday, June 2, @ 2pm - 8pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"Rumrunners, Moonshiners and Bootleggers,"
Monday, June 2, @ 4pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"The True Story of Killing Pablo,"
Tuesday, June 3, @ 2pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"Nazi America: A Secret History,"
Wednesday, June 4, @ 2pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"Hippies,"
Thursday, June 5, @ 2pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"1968 with Tom Brokaw,"
Thursday, June 5, @ 4pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"10 Days to D-Day,"
Friday, June 6, @ 2pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"D-Day: The Lost Evidence : D-Day: The Lost Evidence,"
Friday, June 6, @ 4pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"Investigating History :D-Day: The Secret Massacre,"
Friday, June 6, @ 5pm ET/PT
|
SELLING BIG (NYT): | SELLING BIG (NYT):- Ted Sorensen: COUNSELOR
#9 -- (2 weeks on list)-
6-8-08
- Cokie Roberts: LADIES OF LIBERTY
#15 -- (7 weeks on list)-
6-8-08
- Tony Horwitz: A VOYAGE LONG AND STRANGE
#19 -
6-8-08
- Rick Perlstein: NIXONLAND
#23 -
6-8-08
- Kenneth C. Davis: AMERICA'S HIDDEN HISTORY
#27 -
6-8-08
|
FUTURE RELEASES: | FUTURE RELEASES:- Michael Dobbs: One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War,
June 3, 2008
- Yuan-Tsung Chen: Return to the Middle Kingdom: One Family, Three Revolutionaries, and the Birth of Modern China,
June 3, 2008
- Shane O'Sullivan: Who Killed Bobby?, June 3, 2008
- Gavin Menzies: 1434: The Year a Magnificent Chinese Fleet Sailed to Italy and Ignited the Renaissance,
June 3, 2008
- Jim Lacey: Pershing, June 10, 2008
- Robert F. Dorr: Hell Hawks!: The Untold Story of the American Fliers Who Savaged Hitler's Wehrmacht,
June 15, 2008
- Geoff Shepard: Secret Plot to Make Ted Kennedy President: Inside the Real Watergate Conspiracy, June 17, 2008
- Gerald M. Carbone: Nathanael Greene: A Biography of the American Revolution, June 24, 2008
- Contstance Aerson Clark: God or Gorilla: Images of Evolution in the Jazz Age, June 28, 2008
- Lewis Lehrman: Lincoln at Peoria, July 4, 2008
- Linda Porter: The First Queen of England, July 8, 2008
- William Marvel: Lincoln's Darkest Year: The War in 1862, July 16, 2008
- Lorri Glover: The Shipwreck That Saved Jamestown: The Sea Venture Castaways and the Fate of America,
August 5, 2008
- Fred E. Haynes: The Lions of Iwo Jima: The Story of Combat Team 28 and the Bloodiest Battle
in Marine Corps History, August 5, 2008
- Patrick Desbois: The Holocaust by Bullets, August 19, 2008
- Robert Dallek: Harry S. Truman (REV), September 2, 2008
|
DEPARTED: | DEPARTED: |