hnn.us - 10/26/2009
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11-12-07 Did David Brooks Tell the Full Story About Reagan's Neshoba County Fair Visit? By Joseph Crespino Mr. Crespino is the author of In Search of Another Country: Mississippi and the Conservative Counterrevolution (Princeton, 2007). He teaches American history at Emory University. ...
liberalvaluesblog.com - 10/23/2009
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liberalvaluesblog.com —
Praise for Barack Obama’s education plans comes from
an unexpected source– David Brooks . A portion of...
his column: The news is good. In fact, it’s very good. Over the past few days I’ve spoken to people ranging from Bill Gates to Jeb Bush and various education reformers. They are ...
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David Brooks Praises Obama on Education
tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com - 27 days ago
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Last year here I criticized George Packer, an
enlightened denizen of the Chattering Classes Zoo, for trying...
to rehabilitate David Brooks, an ingratiating neo-con who's as doomed as any other charming, brilliant vampire to suck the blood of the ...
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Reclaiming “We”
The Republic of T. —
... . I’d grown up in a home where books about the history of the civil rights movement took up several shelves, and I read as many of them as I could. So the murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Scwherner in Neshoba County Mississippi (where Ronald Reagan is said to have launched his White House bid in 1980) wasn’t new to me, but one detail of the story stood out to me: Schwerner’s ability and willingnes even at the moment of death, to ...
Terrance Heath: Reclaiming "We"
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... . I grew up in a home where books about the history of the civil rights movement took up several shelves, and I read as many of them as I could. So the murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Scwherner in Neshoba County Mississippi (where Ronald Reagan is said to have launched his White House bid in 1980) wasn't new to me, but one detail of the story stood out to me: Schwerner's ability and willingnes even at the moment of death to ...
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