V.G. Kiernan, 1913-2009
John Trumpbour : History
Remembering a historian of the left, an ideological warrior against empire, witness to India's anticolonial struggles and a persuasive critic of torture and government oppression.
2009
2008
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Remembering Studs
André Schiffrin : Cultural Criticism & Analysis
Studs Terkel's longtime publisher looks back on the historian's remarkable career.
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Studs
Remembering our national griot, the bearer of stories of people, ordinary and extraordinary.
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Studs Terkel: The Power of His Prose
Dennis Kucinich : Non-Fiction
He was our Boswell, our Whitman, our Sandburg. He could get people to open up and share their innermost thoughts and dreams.
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Paul Newman
He was funny, he was thoughtful, he was committed and, in the end, he was a friend, period.
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Obama and King
As Obama accepts his party's presidential nomination on the forty-fifth anniversary of King's most famous speech, a historian looks beyond the obvious analogies.
2007
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Studs's People
For Studs Terkel, the touchstone is memory and speech the stuff of which his art is made.
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Our New Look
Take note of our new look, new features, the return of Comix Nation in the print edition of the magazine.
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Robert Engler
Remembering the political economist who brought to contemporary issues the research and philosophical vision of a scholar.
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Schlesinger & The Nation
Remembering an eminent activist historian whose passing has left the public sphere much poorer.
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Ford, Nixon, The Nation
The story behind the story of Gerald Ford's pardon of Nixon.
2006
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David 'Duff' Dretzin
David "Duff" Dretzin had a big heart, a social conscience and a keen sense of humor. He will be missed.
2005
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Emile Capouya
Emile Capouya, literary editor of The Nation from 1970-1976, was both a working man and an intellectual, who brought trade book publishing to European standards and lived to oppose and be ground down by conglomerates.
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Letter from the (Outgoing) Publisher
Victor Navasky : Media Analysis
As Editor Katrina vanden Heuvel becomes the latest in a long line of publisher/owners of The Nation, Victor Navasky looks ahead to his new role as publisher emeritus and member of the magazine's editorial board.
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Passing the Torch
: Alternative & Independent Media
Nation editor Katrina vanden Heuvel takes on the role of publisher and general partner at the magazine, and Victor Navasky becomes publisher emeritus and a member of the magazine's editorial board.
2002
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American Dreams, Lost and Found
Studs Terkel : Dennis Kucinich
In this excerpt from his 2002 book, Studs Terkel recalls an encounter with Dennis Kucinich, "the boy-mayor of Cleveland," and follows his political odyssey.
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