Plus: An Oral History of the Bush White House
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July 06, 2020
Like George W.'s 2000 pitch to bring dignity back to the White House, Biden can appeal to anxious voters' desire for calm over Trumpian chaos.
Among other successes, Gina Prince-Bythewood's action film, starring Charlize Theron, features a revolutionary gay plot line.
Kate and William and company are mostly in lockdown, but Bex and Nick are back in the sequel to The Royal We—and even fictionalized, the world's longest-running soap opera doesn't disappoint.
After the president claimed that "99%" of COVID-19 cases are "harmless," his aides are reportedly working on messaging to convince Americans that they can "live with the virus being a threat."
The Italian maestro, who scored hundreds of films, is best known for his work on Sergio Leone Spaghetti Westerns like A Fistful of Dollars and The Good, The Bad and the Ugly.
Was it a Fourth of July dress-up party or some yonder dimension?
The threat of 9/11 ignored. The threat of Iraq hyped and manipulated. Guantánamo and Abu Ghraib. Hurricane Katrina. The shredding of civil liberties. The rise of Iran. Global warming. Economic disaster. How did one two-term presidency go so wrong? In 2009, Cullen Murphy and Todd S. Purdum, with assistance from Philippe Sands, compiled a sweeping draft of history—distilled from scores of interviews—with fresh insight into the roles of George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and other players.
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