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When confronted with the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, John F. Kennedy had on his mind a book that he had recently read. It was The Guns of August, Barbara Tuchman’s newly-published and now-classic account of how the European powers blundered into the First World War. Kennedy was impressed by the book and encouraged many…
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As Vladimir Lenin didn’t say, “There are decades when nothing happens, and there are weeks when decades happen.” In his book The Quiet Before (2022), the journalist and writer Gal Beckerman makes the case that revolutionary political and cultural movements have often been “incubated” by a period of quiet discussion beforehand: People don’t just cut…
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