In American Dialogue, Jeff Shesol writes, the historian Joseph J. Ellis “draws connections between our history and our present reality with an authority that few other authors can muster.”
Bob Woodward “has once again put together a mosaic of multiple impressions and recollections that add up to an indisputable truth,” Jeff tells NBC News. “In this case, that Trump is utterly, disgracefully, dangerously unfit for the job he’s got.”
Jeff tells the story of RFK’s speech — “a prayer, a quiet plea for a shared understanding.”
Jeff live-blogged the State of the Union. His real-time verdict? “It was the sort of speech that sends a person into a fallout shelter alone with his tax cut and his Second Amendment rights.”
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Lyndon Johnson, Robert Kennedy, and the Feud that Defined a Decade
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The question on many Americans’ minds today is not “What is the state of our union?” but “What is the state of the President’s mental health?”
Jeff reviews Laurence O’Donnell’s Playing With Fire: The 1968 Election and the Transformation of American Politics.
Trump often promised to run the White House like a business, but few C.E.O.s would accept, or survive, a level of staff attrition as high as this President’s.
