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What if Nostalgia Isn’t What It Used to Be?

As our faith in the future plummets and the present blends with the past, we feel certain that we’ve reached the point where history has fallen apart.

by Thomas Mallon via The New Yorker on November 20, 2023

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The Making of Jackie Kennedy

As a student in Paris and a photographer at the Washington Times-Herald, the future First Lady worked behind the lens to bring her own ideas into focus.

by Thomas Mallon via The New Yorker on May 1, 2023

Republican Warren G. Harding speaking to voters from his front porch in Ohio.

How the Promise of Normalcy Won the 1920 Election

A hundred years ago, the U.S. was riven by disease, inﬂamed with racial violence, and torn between isolation and globalism. Sound familiar?

by Thomas Mallon via The New Yorker on September 21, 2020

When a New York Baron Became President

In the case of Chester Arthur, the story is one of surprising redemption.

by Thomas Mallon via The New Yorker on September 11, 2017

Trying to Remember J.F.K.

On the centenary of his birth, seeking the man behind the myth.

by Thomas Mallon via The New Yorker on May 22, 2017

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