My father grew up on a farm in northeast Kansas in the late 1950s. The farm happened to be under the flight path leading to a Strategic Air Command base in North Dakota. By the time he was six, he’d seen more than one hulking B-52 glide quietly
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I’ve spent my life complaining and arguing and telling stories about the city I came from. Then I changed—but it did, too.
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Every night before I go to bed, I like to have a glass of warm almond milk and watch an episode of “Frasier.” What do you do?
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The rise and fall of Richard Nixon has been the subject of many histories, but perhaps none so insightful as Thomas Mallon's latest novel Watergate. A conversation about crime, ambition, booze, and Christopher Hitchens.
