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How Robert F. Kennedy’s Assassination Derailed American Politics
The idealistic presidential candidate was on the verge of seizing control of the 1968 race just as Sirhan Sirhan’s bullet struck.
by
Larry Tye
via
Politico Magazine
on
September 2, 2021
Watch Out For the Top Banana
Edward Bernays and the colonial adventures of the United Fruit Company.
by
Larry Tye
via
Cabinet
on
September 4, 2006
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The Real Legacy of a Demagogue
A new biography of Joseph McCarthy does not reckon with the devastating effects of anti-communism.
by
Dan Kaufman
via
The New Republic
on
October 2, 2020
Joseph McCarthy and the Force of Political Falsehoods
McCarthy never sent a single “subversive” to jail, but, decades later, the spirit of his conspiracy-mongering endures.
by
Louis Menand
via
The New Yorker
on
July 27, 2020
