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I recently read Stephen Ambrose’s excellent biography, Eisenhower: Soldier and President, on our nation’s 34th president. In the 640-page tome, Ambrose discusses the famous farewell address Eisenhower delivered the evening of Jan. 17, 1961, in the midst of the Cold…
Kent Christopher Owen died December 5, 2015. He began his life in Owen County, Indiana, and being a seventh generation Hoosier was ideally suited to become Indiana editor of The American Spectator when it relocated to our nation’s capital thirty…
Rome 1960: The Olympics That changed the World By David Maraniss (Simon & Schuster, 478 pages, $26.95) Reviewed by Alan B. Somers In 2004, NBC presented a program titled “1960: The Last Olympics of Innocence,” and in 2008 David Maraniss…
