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Columns & Opinion
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On Politics
Feb 20, 2017
How does Trump stack up against America’s greatest presidents?
Historians surveyed by C-SPAN ranked Lincoln first, Nixon 28th, and Buchanan last.
By Ben Joravsky
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Carl Bernstein
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Judith Miller
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On Culture
Feb 15, 2017
What’s wrong with presidential libraries?
Anthony Clark’s
The Last Campaign
explores the troubling history of these wonky historical institutions.
By Deanna Isaacs
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Anthony Clark
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The Last Campaign: How Presidents Rewrite History, Run for Posterity, and Enshrine their Legacies
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Barack Obama
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On Politics
Jan 25, 2017
Ameya Pawar wants a new New Deal
The 47th Ward alderman and gubernatorial hopeful conjures FDR in a run against Rauner.
By Ben Joravsky
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Bleader
May 25, 2016
Video
Trump may be a grandiose narcissist, but he’s no match for the Lyndon Johnson of
All the Way
The HBO movie about a narcissist-in-chief reveals a lot about our potential new narcissist-in-chief.
By J.R. Jones
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Dec 10, 2012
How FDR won the war of public perception
Michele Landis Dauber's
The Sympathetic State
details the selling of the New Deal
By Sam Worley
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The Sympathetic State: Disaster Relief and the Origins of the American Welfare State
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Oct 16, 2012
Q&A: Rick Perlstein on how a dose of machine politics could benefit Obama
The author of
Before the Storm
and
Nixonland
sits down for a chat in light of his recent
Chicago
magazine cover story
By Micah Uetricht
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