This talk is part of the online conference The National-Security State and the Kennedy Administration.
The Vietnam War has been portrayed as either a war that the United States military was not allowed to win or a bad mistake ...
The Age of Illusions: How America Squandered Its Cold War Victory
by Andrew Bacevich (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2020), 236 pages.
Andrew Bacevich’s new book, The Age of Illusions: How America Squandered Its Cold War Victory, examines the ...
From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America by Elizabeth Hinton (Harvard University Press, 2016), 449 pages.
Before the war on the drugs there was the war ...
The Vietnam War by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick (PBS, 2017) DVD.
The documentary television event of 2017 was the 10-part PBS series titled The Vietnam War, directed by both Ken Burns and Lynn Novick. The series ...
The Future of Freedom Foundation hosted one of the most fascinating, important, and relevant conferences in our 27-year history.
Entitled “The National Security State and JFK,” the conference was held on Saturday, June 3, 2017, ...
The Future of Freedom Foundation hosted one of the most fascinating, important, and relevant conferences in our 27-year history.
Entitled “The National Security State and JFK,” the conference was held on Saturday, June 3, 2017, at the Dulles Airport Marriott ...
Dallas 1963, by Bill Minuteaglio and Steven Davis (Twelve, 2013), 384 pages.
Nut Country: Right-Wing Dallas and the Birth of the Southern Strategy, by Edward H. Miller (University of Chicago Press, 2015), 256 pages.
History doesn’t repeat, but sometimes it seems ...
David Talbot has written an important book that is destined to become a classic, because it helps us confront the darker aspects of our nation’s history. As American citizens we vote in elections and our television news keeps us ...
Two Days in June: John F. Kennedy and the 48 Hours That Made History by Andrew Cohen (McClelland & Stewart, 2014), 404 pages.
To Move the World: JFK’s Quest for Peace by Jeffrey Sachs (Random House, 2013), 249 pages.
November 22, 2013, marked ...
The assassination of President Kennedy was an unnerving event for the people of the United States and the world. Contradictory news stories that followed, as well as the shooting of Lee Harvey Oswald by Jack Ruby, caused many people ...
