IT’S BEEN snowing for hours here in the Beltway, inches of snow already fallen and melted. This is the view outside my office. But now the flakes are larger and coming down like a blizzard. It’s beautiful, but then, I love the snow… It’s likely the last of this season. I’ve updated this post with [...]
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50 Years Ago, John F. Kennedy Talks to Eisenhower on Cuban Missile Crisis [Audio]
THIS COINCIDES with a new book on JFK. From the JFK Library: As President, John F. Kennedy was the ultimate arbiter of American foreign and millitary policy. But there were still a number of former presidents he could consult with, including President Dwight D. Eisenhower. In this phone conversation, Kennedy asks Eisenhower what he believes [...]
Cuban Missile Crisis 50 Years Later, and Classic TV Drama that Captured the Times [Full Video]
IT WAS 50 years ago today that John F. Kennedy viewed the aerial photographer that became the Cuban Missile Crisis. The 1974 made-for-television docudrama that told the story is one of the classics of the modern era. Some of you may remember George Clooney’s “Fail Safe,” a live drama on CBS back in 2000 [clip [...]
Smithsonian Magazine Excavates Thomas Jefferson’s Darkness
THE TEA Party era and uneducated fictionalists like Sean Hannity enjoy rewriting American history and hoisting on our founders qualities they don’t deserve. As a strong admirer of Jefferson’s mind and engineering genius, just visit Monticello some time, his evil racism was obviously a product of the era, but it is no less diabolical. The [...]
A 50-Year Vietnam “Anniversary” Forgetting Eisenhower
“Commitments by Eisenhower of military supplies, financial aid, and some six hundred military advisers had made the United States an interested party in Vietnam’s six-year-old civil war. To deal with the mounting danger, Kennedy authorized funding for an increase of twenty thousand additional South Vietnamese troops and the creation of a task force to help [...]
BARNES & NOBLE Chooses THE HILLARY EFFECT in ‘NOOK First’ Featured Authors Campaign
It’s incredibly exciting to announce that The Hillary Effect has been selected as one of two non-fiction e-books in the Barnes and Noble “NOOK First” featured authors campaign, just launched. Being selected as part of this “NOOK First” Barnes and Noble project was an incredible honor and opportunity. Now you know why we waited until [...]
Update on the The Hillary Effect
Today’s not going to be the day we publish, but I promise we’ll have a big send off for the publication next week! It will be worth the wait. Some book PR to give you a little more on what it’s all about. Spanning nearly two decades of American politics, The Hillary Effect is the [...]
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Taylor Marsh Authors The Hillary Effect – Politics, Sexism and the Destiny of Loss
Due out in November. Available on Amazon.com, on your Kindle, Barnes & Noble, Nook, and iPad. Spanning nearly two decades of American politics, The Hillary Effect is the provocative and insightful story of the first viable female presidential candidate in history to win a primary and do so in spite of her campaign team’s mistakes. [...]
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