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A Look at “True Believer: Hubert Humphrey’s Quest for a More Just America” by James Traub

True Believer: Hubert Humphrey’s Quest for a More Just America by James Traub My rating: 4 of 5 stars Hubert Humphrey was the first Vice President for me as a youngster, as I was too young to remember LBJ in … Continue reading

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Politics, Presidents, and Making the Wheel Turn

One new David Brooks column on Abraham Lincoln, and a review of Robert Caro’s LBJ books by Thomas Meaney, in “The Nation”, have made for some great Thanksgiving reading. Connected? I think so. Brooks, in his column, masterfully writes of … Continue reading

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