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Well, first, i want to thank the new America Foundation for having us. I am particular and very honored to be a moderator because up until now, this late date in my career, no ones ever found my moderate enough in my views to be a moderators. [laughter] im really happy tonight, the first time i like to moderate a panel, and its, obviously, a great honor to talk about this on the 50th anniversary, and, obviously, its a book that has put this bark on the culture and its a very, very rare book that...

Dispair. In his american assumption, there was a version of the creed of exceptionalism that scholars came to regard as uniquely american, escaped from the rise and fall of history and universal opportunity for individuals, endless progress for the nation, and yet split historical second in the heat of radical reconstruction, they maintained that the american assumption was temporarily counterbalanced, alarmed by the return to congress in 1866 of unreconstructed southerners who might repudiate t...

Save the world. This is 45 minutes. Im delighted to be atlanta. What a great book festival thiss is. I think the book i wrote is relevant. I wrote a biography of dwightthe eisenhower who is a warrior, was determined to keep us out of asd war. But before i talk about my book they asked me to talk a little bit about the writing life and my own expenses as a writer, so i will. I got out of college and i tried to write the Great American novel, and i wrote about 80d pages of it and i brought it tor ...

Its an embarrassment of riches, and we must thank the city of Savannah Department of cultural affairs, festival upon spores, members, and individual donors for their support. It is because of them that we are able to bring you these esteemed authors for free. If you enjoyed todays speakers and would like to make a donation to the festival, weve provided yellow buckets at the door when you exit. Please consider giving to our bucket list for next years gifted scribes. Before we get started, i just...

For Cuban missile crisis fans, there is a lot of interesting new material in the Robert F. Kennedy records that were partially opened today after…

Former spook Elizabeth, retired nurse Joyce, psychiatrist Ibrahim and trade unionist Ron decide to investigate the disappearance of journalist Bethany Waites.

Displays of presidential toughness aren’t what our nation needs right now.

Advice from JFK to President Biden.

Dear Mr. President:I send greetings from the other side — and no, I don’t mean the other side of the aisle. I refer to the place where old politicians go to make amends for their sins.Apart from our shared Catholicism and affinity for sunglasses, I suspect you and I don’t have a lot in common. Actua...

A strange turn occurs toward the middle of Frederick Seidel’s 2009 Paris Review interview. The poet, whom Adam Kirsch once deemed the best in the United States, describes himself as coming late to an appreciation of New York School poets James Schuyler and Frank O’Hara. Until this point in the conversation, Seidel’s distinctive sensibility snapped into place commensurate with his biography. His patrician vocabulary and profoundly conservative sense of rhyme and meter gestured toward his ...