She has never been fully credited with the lifetime of devoted friendship and trust she provided for her friend, who happened to be the world’s most famous woman, but public acclaim was always the last thing which Nancy Tuckerman sought…. Read More ›
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Weiner’s Sexting, Media Manipulation & The Cost to Us
It’s so trite nobody cares who ultimately profits and suffers. The male candidate commits some form of marital infidelity. The complicit female counterpart is aggrieved yet profits. The media ensures that obsessive coverage of the story obliterates boring analysis of the… Read More ›
McGuire or Maguire: Who Fathered Labor Day?
McGuire or Maguire? Peter or Matthew? New York or New Jersey? Could it be that even good old Labor Day, a time for parades and picnics was just an elaborate excuse for another good old struggle for power? Not working… Read More ›
McKinley & Roosevelt: Teddy’s Crack Behind Mack’s Back, Egotism & Death
William McKinley had seen war. It wasn’t about heroics, it was about blood. So much of his identity was linked to his years serving in the Union Army during the Civil War and he maintained strong ties to all of… Read More ›
Eleanor Roosevelt’s Mysteriously Missing Grandfather & was she part-Italian?
Despite her being born forty-five years before Jacqueline Kennedy, there is a similar pattern in the story of Eleanor Roosevelt‘s Irish immigrant heritage. It illustrates less the shame of humble origin than how the power of incredible wealth can lead people… Read More ›
Growing Up at the World Trade Center with Previously Unpublished Photos
Ten years ago, each time I watched the looping footage of the World Trade Center towers collapsing, my heart sank afresh with them. Not only because of the horror I felt over the many lives lost. I was also feeling… Read More ›
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