Tag Archives: American politics

Cliff Notes: Free, Smart, Real, Just America

Posted on 07/01/2021 by paulefallon

If you have 45 minutes to ponder the state of this great nation over the upcoming Independence Day weekend, I recommend “How America Fractured into 4 Parts,” by George Packer, published by The Atlantic in Medium. If you don’t have … Continue reading →

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Alan Drury, Charles Dickens, and the Duality of Good Times and Bad

Posted on 04/09/2019 by paulefallon

Sixty years ago Alan Drury published Advise and Consent, perhaps the most famous political potboiler ever written. The novel spent 102 weeks on The New York Times bestseller list, won the 1960 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, and inspired Otto Preminger’s … Continue reading →

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