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The greatest presidential servants are those who are modest and self-effacing, whose sole purpose is to help the president succeed without regard to their own reputation or status. Speechwriters especially are meant to blend in with the background wallpaper, lending bold or reassuring colors to a president’s rhetoric depending on the circumstances, though more than

Hitler must be the most fascinating character of all time. He is good for thousands of books and learned articles, films, and documentaries—even children’s books like When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit. The flow won’t abate, though 80 years have passed since Der Führer shot himself in the Reich Chancellery about to be overrun by the

The fall of ancient dynasties still shake the ground on which we walk, making Tsuyoshi Hasegawa’s The Last Tsar more relevant than one might think. The French Revolution spawned a critic, Edmund Burke, whose writings founded modern conservatism, as well as supporters such as Thomas Jefferson, who said of the bloody uprising, “Rather than it