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Over the summers, I have dedicated myself to journalistic interests. As an intern at the Boston Phoenix, I aided then media critic, now Boston Globe Ombudsperson, Mark Jurkowitz. This summer, I will intern with ABC's "This Week" with David Brinkley...
...campaigns of William Jennings Bryan and Prohibition, through Teddy Roosevelt's Progressives, the left-wing labor movement and the right-wing radio priesthood of Father Coughlin. And the Republican Revolution of 1994. "But the Republican populism of the past generation or so has been all antigovernment," says historian Alan Brinkley. "Buchanan is putting back the anticorporate elements...
...think there was ever a period when wealth was created so instantly through the market as it is today," says Alan Brinkley, professor of history at Columbia University. "Certainly there were many people who rose from modest wealth to vast riches over a lifetime at the turn of the century--specifically, those in railroads, steel, oil and the big, rapidly growing industries of the time. But it was nothing like the people today who are worth a few hundred thousand dollars one day and take their companies public the next and become billionaires...
Nobody can accuse CHRISTIE BRINKLEY of being slow. This, after all, is the woman who thought to take photos of herself minutes after a near fatal helicopter crash to sell to PEOPLE magazine. Two months later, she agreed to marry a fellow crash survivor. Now "after much thought and consideration" --and seven months of togetherness--she is separating from that man, real estate developer RICK TAUBMAN, whose son she bore but eight weeks ago. Apart from Brinkley's tendency to overthink issues, it's unclear why her third marriage went sour, although there's ugly talk that money...
...Democrats was attempting to dismantle the mechanisms of the New Deal, such as the National Resources Planning Board. The House Un-American Activities Committee began a campaign to link liberalism with communism, suggesting that liberals were not simply lukewarm about capitalism but were actively plotting to upend it. Brinkley, a professor of American history at Columbia University, suggests that the compromises made by New Dealers in the early '40s--backing down on their antimonopolism and support of industrial "planning"--explain in part why "modern American liberalism has proved to be a so much weaker and more vulnerable force than almost...