Reading Time: 4 minutes Presidential debates rarely sway voters, but Biden-Trump will make for an entertaining, if vicious, spectacle
Tag: History – Politics
John Turner and the demise of gentlemanly politics
Reading Time: 4 minutes Politicians like the late prime minister are sources of inspiration for public service, intelligent discourse and common decency
Will the 2020 presidential election be a rerun of 1980?
Reading Time: 3 minutes Like Jimmy Carter in 1980, Donald Trump is an incumbent who needs to raise doubts about his rival
Pierre would not be pleased with Justin’s folly
Reading Time: 5 minutes Judging by the amount of money at stake, and cabinet and family involvement, this may be the largest scandal in Canadian history
Gerald Ford blew his chances to be Reagan’s running mate
Reading Time: 4 minutes During 1980’s Republican convention, backroom negotiations and media speculation over a running mate dominated
Hubris, conspiracy and the fall of Margaret Thatcher
Reading Time: 4 minutes The former U.K. prime minister had a radical streak and a thirst for combat that the men she led didn’t share
A close-up look at J.F.K. on the campaign trail
Reading Time: 3 minutes Primary, a 1960 documentary, shows Kennedy and Hubert Humphrey battling it out in the Wisconsin primary trenches
The making of an unlikely U.S. president
Reading Time: 4 minutes The new book Becoming Ronald Reagan details the unlikely emergence of the most consequential Republican conservative of the 20th century
Thank you, Mr. Trump, for rousing us
Reading Time: 3 minutes Trump has inadvertently mobilized the American public and people around the world who believe in the rights of the common citizen
The rise and fall of Spiro Agnew
Reading Time: 3 minutes The Nixon administration vice-president made two critical mistakes: he took on the media and he got caught taking kickbacks