‘Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!’
While it might be silly to argue the Berlin Wall came down because of Ronald Reagan, he demonstrated unusual prescience about the Soviet Union’s fragility
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Author: Pat Murphy
The Road to Camelot offers fresh insights into JFK mythology
2017 is John F. Kennedy’s centenary year and a new book offers a deep dive into the details of his successful 1960 U.S. presidential campaign
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Two women defined by and celebrated for a single book each
Margaret Mitchell and Harper Lee tackled the peculiarities and flaws of the American South of different eras but still plumbed some universal truths
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The Meech Lake Accord and the destruction of a political party
Brian Mulroney’s insistence on crafting constitutional change went from master stroke to the death of the Progressive Conservative Party
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The power of Fatima and Catholic mysticism
One hundred years after three Portuguese children reported seeing an apparition while they tended a flock of sheep, the story of Our Lady of Fatima endures
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