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Even the famous are working feverishly to cash in. Paul Krugman, who just won the Nobel Prize for Economics, is having one of his backlist titles brushed off and reissued with revisions. Publisher W.W. Norton & Co. is lengthening the title of 1999 book The Return of Depression Economics with an appendage: ... and the Crisis of 2008. Krugman has agreed to write three new chapters, revise two and eliminate two. He started writing two weeks ago in order to make the release date...
...find the keys to presidential temperament, our assistant managing editor Michael Duffy, along with Lisa Todorovich from the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia, organized a roundtable of presidential historians: Richard Norton Smith, who has run five presidential libraries, Beverly Gage of Yale, and David Coleman and Russell Riley of the Miller Center. Excerpts from their conversation follow Nancy Gibbs' wise and penetrating cover story. You can listen to the whole thing on TIME.com...
TIME recently gathered four presidential historians--George Mason University's Richard Norton Smith, Yale University's Beverly Gage, and Russell Riley and David Coleman of the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia--to discuss presidential temperament: what it is, who had it and how much it matters in the White House. An excerpt of their conversation...
...office than a performance: Who saw the gloom and glower behind Eisenhower's incandescent grin? This is why temperament descends easily into caricature: the feisty Give-'Em-Hell Harry, the cool-as-crystal Kennedy, the Vesuvian Lyndon Johnson. "We've taken temperament and turned it," warns presidential historian Richard Norton Smith of George Mason University, into "vaudeville...
...study from professors at Harvard Business School and Tufts published last month. The paper, entitled “Learning (not) to talk about race: When older children underperform in social categorization,” is one of two new studies on race written by Business School Professor Michael I. Norton along with lead author Evan P. Apfelbaum, a PhD candidate at Tufts, and Samuel R. Sommers, an assistant professor at Tufts. “The impetus for the paper on children was trying to understand the extent that we see race yet ‘don?...