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...desire to reconnect with the world. And history shows precedence for such a symbolic action: it is not for nothing that on the eve of the Cold War, with America seeking to present a non-aggressive face to the world, the “Department of War?? became the “Department of Defense.” In response to numerous surveys confirming falling opinions of the United States around the world, the Commission on Smart Power—a bipartisan project chaired by Kennedy School of Government professor Joseph S. Nye, Jr. and former Deputy Secretary...
...harmed and never were frightened, never lost.”“And he can believe that he is forgiven.”“He can believe so much, the truth of it makes him weep.”With words such as these, Kennedy illuminates war??s real, true human cost: the utter extirpation of belief. And that, Kennedy stresses, is more terrible than death itself. Death is much, much simpler. —Staff writer Sanders I. Bernstein can be reached at sbernst@fas.harvard.edu...
...Civil War, whose women and slaveholders have previously drawn her historian’s eye. This time, she tackles death, or, as she calls it, the Good Death. More precisely, it’s the soldier’s attempt to maintain dignity when confronted with the war??s greatest indignity, anonymous death. Even when writing about the unknown slain stomped deep into mass graves, Faust invests her subjects with significance, granting the soldiers a Good Death a century after their first. Faust’s humor emerges subtly, the finest example coming when she turns her attention...
...book—an analysis of the cultural impact of the Civil War??s 600,000 casualties—is the latest work in a remarkably broad scholarly career that has stirred praise and some controversy in academia...
...with the choice of candidates for their party’s nomination. Thirty-seven percent of all polled said that the poor showing on both sides of the aisle recommends the rise of a third major party. The same percentage of respondents registered “Iraq and the War?? as their number one issue, while health care came in a distant second at 9 percent. “Iraq matters and everything else is distant, that’s what the poll is saying,” said Matthew Baum, a visiting associate professor of public policy...