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...correspondence between the two: King wrote to his friend, “Did you get one of these? If not, mind if I send him your way? Good lord, this would be like somebody on the Crimson staff of 1979 getting in touch with a Harvard debater from . . . Truman?...
...Most academics are guilty of wordiness, but political scientists study one of the most important aspects of our lives: They, more than others, need to be relevant. The impulse to measure phenomena as closely as possible is respectable, but students of government should remember Harry Truman??s quip: “Being too good is apt to be uninteresting...
...cycle has been: When Barack Obama first announced he was running for President in February 2007, I had not yet been admitted to Harvard. And here I am on Election Day, a sophomore penning a headline that may yet turn out to be the “Dewey Defeats Truman?? of our time...
...Eugene O’Neill, who took the honors in 1936, attended Harvard for one year before dropping out. Both schools fare far better in terms of Pulitzer prize-winning alumni. Two-time Pulitzer winner David McCullough was an English major at Yale. (He won for “Truman?? and “John Adams,” but his earlier collection of essays, “Brave Companions,” is hands-down one of the best books to pass time riding on the T.) Yale also boasts several playwrights who?...
...process of misrepresenting the creation of Israel, Perret manages to malign Truman??s top Jewish aides, as well. For example, he writes that “there is no evidence of [adviser David] Niles ever doing much for blacks, but as an observant Jew, he devoted much of his energies to the creation of Israel.” This flies in the face of a 1987 Political Science Quarterly study concluding that Niles “developed the rationale” for the Truman-appointed Civil Rights Committee, whose work led to the desegregation of the federal workforce...