by Erik Kain on September 28, 2011
Timothy Noah asks: Who, besides William Howard Taft (300+ pounds)–who may or may not have gotten stuck in the White House bathtub but certainly arranged for a bigger one to be installed there–were America’s fattest presidents? Naturally, this is a question spawned by the possibility of a Chris Christie run for the presidency. It turns [...]
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by Erik Kain on September 26, 2011
It’s funny how history repeats itself. Conor Williams has an excerpt from Michael Kozin’s The Populist Persuasion up at his blog describing the 1896 elections. The echoes of our own time are glaring: During the presidential campaign, the major parties fought, more pointedly than ever before, to control the symbols and definitions of patriotism. The [...]
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