Category: Cold War Era
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Salazar: The Dictator Who Refused to Die (2020) by Tom Gallagher
Portrait of a Pessimist Dictator Antonio Salazar was born the fifth and last child to devout peasant parents in the coastal city of Vimieiro in 1889, a time when roughly eighty percent of Portuguese were illiterate. The future dictator was a brilliant scholar and a sincere Catholic who believed the teachings of the church were…
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American MoonshotAmerican Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space RaceAmerican Moonshot (2019) by Douglas Brinkley
Douglas Brinkley’s “American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race” (2019) tells the dramatic, deeply human story behind one of the most ambitious and inspiring feats in American history: the race to land a man on the Moon and return him safely to earth before the end of the 1960s. At its center…
