Nation Topics - Wendell Willkie | The Nation

It's hard to win a presidential debate when you look like Rudolf Hess. That's probably why Richard Nixon did much better against John F. Kennedy, among those who listened on the radio.

Amity Schlaes's history of the Great Depression is nothing less than an attempt to reclaim the 1930s for the free market.

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It all began in the heat of the summer of 1940. Hitler was at his peak in Europe. France had been defeated.