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Tanks and soldiers in parade in Pyongyang

North Korea: The Myth of a Hermit Kingdom

… In this episode of  History Talk , hosts Brenna Miller and Jessica Blissit speak … Jessica Blissit   Welcome to History Talk , the podcast that brings together a panel of … who have defected have written in the New York Times and books and the Washington Post about how their heroes are no …
Cover of The Invisible Bridge by Rick Perlstein

There Are No Heroes Here: American Malaise in the Seventies

Review of The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan, by Rick Perlstein (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2014)
… in the series, won the 2001 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in history, and The New York Times named the second book … ideal of itself than at just about any other time in its history” (xiii). The twists and turns along the way are more … to push. There are no heroes here, Perlstein tells us, and history isn’t necessarily supposed to make us feel good …