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Among Presidents with transformational ambitions, lasting success was limited to the team of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry Truman. Roosevelt used the opportunity provided by the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor to commit the U.S. to multilateralism. In the words of Yale historian John Gaddis, Roosevelt expanded American hegemony by scrapping both isolation and unilateralism: "He never neglected, as Wilson did, the need to keep proclaimed interests from extending beyond actual capabilities." He linked Wilsonian ideals to a realist vision, combining the attractive power of his Four Freedoms with the idea of four policemen (later five, with the addition...
F.D.R. initiated a strategy that lasted more than a half-century, in part because Truman, his successor, adapted his policies to the changing situation at the end of the war by adding the Marshall Plan and NATO to contain Soviet power. Subsequent cold war Presidents made incremental changes within that strategic framework...
...unusual situation? I didn't really know my mom was famous until I was probably about 12. That's when she was doing fashion stuff and her name became much more talked about. I'd met famous people as a kid, like Charlie Chaplin when he returned from exile, Truman Capote, Andy Warhol. What was cool about my parents was, my brother and I were expected to sit at the adult table. There was never a kids' table. To me, the greatest privilege of the way I grew up was realizing at a very young age that these people...
...recording sessions, and news accounts from the 1980s said he might write a definitive biography of the singer. McClintick says his interest in Sinatra flourishes to this day, but he declines to discuss his future works.‘NOT AN ADVOCATE’McClintick cites Truman G. Capote, Gay Talese, and former Crimson associate managing editor J. Anthony Lukas ’55, as his models. And like the latter two, McClintick has left the daily grind of newspapering to pursue long-form narrative nonfiction.His painstakingly reported accounts read like riveting novels. “He makes us care...
Galbraith received the highest national civilian honor, the Medal of Freedom, twice in his lifetime, first from President Harry S. Truman in 1946 for his work during the Second World War and then from Clinton...