The Atlantic cited a Ronald Reagan biography written by Senior Fellow Richard Reeves…….
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Book World: Review of Daring Young Men by Richard Reeves
The Washington Post reviewed "Daring Young Men: The Heroism and Triumph of the Berlin Airlift, June 1948-May 1949," by Senior Fellow Richard Reeves. "…Reeves, a bestselling author of three presidential biographies and several other books, has delved into declassified archives and provided fresh insights into the power clashes between Truman, Stalin and other leading figures," the article stated. "But the real value of Reeves's book lies in the remarkable human sagas he collected through hundreds of interviews with uncelebrated pilots, mechanics, weathermen and ground controllers who sustained the airlift for almost a year."……
An Audience Of One
Most of what you read, see and hear about Afghanistan is not meant for you. The words, optimistic and pessimistic, right and wrong, all the leaks, all the numbers of troop estimates, costs and polls are aimed at an audience of one: the president. It is very hard to get to chat with any president. But any president has to know what is in the big three of American newspapers (or their Web sites): The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal. And those papers right now are filled with shouting and whispering to President Obama. The……
Richard Reeves: Look to history for health-care direction
The State Journal-Register ran an op-ed by Senior Fellow Richard Reeves on health care reform. "Socialism or not, history is pushing health-care reform into law. It will not be 100 percent of what President Barack Obama wanted. It will be a compromise bill with some Republican input – and it will be added to and expanded over the years," Reeves wrote…….
Mike Bloomberg Owns This Town
New York Magazine noted that Senior Fellow Richard Reeves was one of the writers who helped the magazine create its list of the most powerful people in New York. These writers "constructed not just a numerical ranking of the city's movers and shakers but a vivid tapestry of how those players – many of them unelected and obscure — interacted to shape public life in New York," the story stated…….
A publicly moral man
The last time I saw Ted Kennedy he was, in Tom Wolfe's phrase, "A man in full." It was Labor Day, 2007, on Cape Cod, and he was singing and laughing hugely through one of those parody songs that folks compose for friends' birthdays. He was great. He lit up the place. He was free at last, I thought. He had the right job and the right wife. He was free of the presidential ambitions forced on him by others, especially by his dead brothers. He was free of being a Kennedy. He was what he was meant to be,……
The United States of Optimism
BusinessWeek ran an op-ed by Senior Fellow Richard Reeves about Americans' persistent optimism. Reeves wrote that his journalism students are uninterested in the-sky-is-falling dirges. He added: "My students, frankly, are not much interested in history … . Instead, to gauge their prospects, they look ahead. Today they realize, among other things, that they are empowered by their knowledge of technological changes that scare their elders. And they are right to feel hopeful about this."……
Kennedy and Obama
The New York Times ran an op-ed by Senior Fellow Richard Reeves about President John F. Kennedy's inaugural address. "The speech was bellicose and conciliatory at the same," Reeves wrote. "Kennedy was a man who knew that in his new job, words were often more important than deeds," Reeves added. "Few people would remember whether he balanced the budget. Almost all Americans would remember his lines, particularly, 'Ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country.'"……
A new era of bipartisanship?
Early in this year's primary election season I did a study on bipartisanship for the Center on Communication Leadership of the University of Southern California. I'm afraid I was not very optimistic that Republicans and Democrats would be able to get together on much of anything after the Clinton and Bush years of what some call "hyperpartisanship." Now I'm not so sure. I concluded then that: "My own feeling is that only a strong president with a mandate for governing through a universal crisis — a necessary war or devastating climate change — can bring any bipartisanship or, better, nonpartisanship……