Undeclared War and three Presidents--Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon
What a contrast. On January 17, 1961, in his farewell address to the nation, President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned of what he described...
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Unexpected Greatness—the presidencies of Harry S. Truman and Dwight D. Eisenhower
Who would have guessed? Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower rated among our greatest presidents? The latest poll among historians has...
The Crash, the War, and FDR
It was the huddled masses all over again. Only this time it wasn't immigrants seeking work, it was American citizens seeking work. ...
The Boom-to-Bust Presidents--Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover
The Roaring Twenties: economic prosperity, Jazz, flappers, Art Deco, radio, silent movies, automobiles, commercial aviation, and...
One of the Wonders of Pop Music--Anne Murray
Can a country girl from the Canadian Maritimes--who doesn't dress suggestively or act outrageously--make it as pop singer? That was Anne...
Gurney Luck--The 1964 French Grand Prix
Mention Rouen to any self-respecting Frenchman, and he may think of France's Patron Saint, Joan of Arc. Or, perhaps be reminded of...
book review: Getting out of Saigon, by Ralph White
What's interesting about this compelling rescue story, is that the author, Ralph White does not consider himself a hero nor particularly...
Rindt Serves Notice--1969 U.S. Grand Prix
"If Jochen Rindt ever wins a Grand Prix, I will shave off my beard." This was the word of no less an authority than Denis Jenkinson, the...
F-1's Quintessential Number-Two Driver, Snags a Win in Mexico City--The 1965 Mexican Grand Prix
This was not exactly the role Richie Ginther had envisioned for himself. What he had been hired to do was to be a test driver, and...
Jackie Stewart Assumes the Crown--The 1968 German Grand Prix
Somewhere in motor racing's collective consciousness, the Nurburgring will always exist, awaiting some desperate hour: Tazio Nuvolari in...
Tony's Playpen
There was three feet of snow in Denver when the ARS transporter departed from the team headquarters on First Street. Three days later,...
McLaren on the Verge: The 1967 Canadian Grand Prix
NINETEEN SIXTY-SIX was a disastereous year for McLaren Cars. The money they had spent developing the Ford Indy engine for their...
Taffy Revels in the Rain--The 1961 British Grand Prix
The sky over northeast England matched Phil Hill's mood perfectly--dark and foreboding. Two days earlier, Hill had departed Reims in a...
Book Review—The Making of a Quagmire
When I was in college as in the early-1970s, the the heroes of the Journalism Department were Vietnam reporters Neil Sheehan, Malcolm...
The Silver Fox
It was a pivotal moment in Pop Music. Charlie Rich was in Memphis auditioning for Sam Phillips, the owner of Sun Records who’d...
The Man Who Invented Rock ‘n’ Roll
Sun Records was little more than a storefront studio in a bad part of Memphis, Tennessee. Yet, it was here the first rock-n-roll record...
Domes: Easy When You Know How
In the second century A.D., Roman emperor Hadrian commissioned the building of a temple to commemorate the gods of all the planets. Mind...
Amazon Review—The Pantheon—Father of Domes
The Pantheon is brilliant in its simplicity, a combining of the circle and square, with man as part of the equation. “The Pantheon:...
Brunelleschi's Dome -- a Monument to Optimism
It was some contest, and it was some prize. The contest was finding a way to stand an egg on its end. The prize was designing what...
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