When the two parties gather to select their candidates, the proceedings will be empty glitz, with none of the import of old-time conventions. Or will they?
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Organized crime? Mafia? A lot of people, including J. Edgar Hoover, said it was mere folklore, until one day in 1957 when an alert New York state trooper set up a roadblock in a small town. What followed was low comedy with high consequences.
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General MacArthur designated the author as engineer of the Marine invasion at Wonsan, and told him to accompany the first wave. This would sharpen his mind, MacArthur said, "like an imminent hanging."
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Nikita Khrushchev’s son remembers a great turning point of the Cold War, as seen from behind the Iron Curtain
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