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Week of August 27, 2012


Up Front



Lest We Forget -- Condi Redux?
Josh Brown's Life During Wartime


"Tell Them About Yourself Mitt, Tell Them About Yourself"
Gil Troy


How Do We Rank Our Presidents? Interview with Robert W. Merry
David A. Walsh


Weird Facts about Presidential Conventions
HNN Staff


Neil Armstrong: A Life in Pictures
HNN Staff

News at Home



On The Road To Ryan And Ruin
Lawrence Davidson


Paul Ryan's Hijacking of Natural Rights
John Willingham


Ryan's Doctrine . . .
Josh Brown: Life During Wartime



HNN Hot Topics: Paul Ryan

News Abroad



The Republican "Small Government" Fraud
Lawrence S. Wittner

Historians & History



JFK Was a Legend in His Own Time
Yoav J. Tenembaum


In Search of New Mythology (Part Three)
Ira Chernus's MythicAmerica

Culture Watch



A Harrowing and Brilliant Look at Gay America in 1958
Bruce Chadwick


Sad Tale of Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries in the 1940s Is Devastating
Bruce Chadwick


An Unsteady John Wilkes Booth
Bruce Chadwick

Books



Review of Paul Ingrassia's Engines of Change: A History of the American Dream in Fifteen Cars
Luther Spoehr
Review of Donald L. Bartlett and James B. Steele’s The Betrayal of the American Dream and Mike Lofgren’s The Party is Over: How Republicans Went Crazy, Democrats Became Useless, and the Middle Class Got Shafted
Murray Polner