Henry Kissinger spent nearly 50 years shaping how the world remembered his 8 years in power. My book SUPER K shows how he did it, the institutions that helped him, and why it matters. Preorder: https://t.co/SSzVHUzu43
Out in Oct.! When Kissinger left office in 1977, he pioneered a new model of political celebrity, sustaining for nearly 50 years a level of fame and influence that most officials never achieve even at the height of their careers. Super K (Simon & Schuster) tells how he did it.
If anyone out there has a print copy of the New York Times Kissinger obituary (Dec. 1, 2023), would you be willing to describe it to me? Is it 5 print pages with photos?
Niall Ferguson demolishes the notion that DT is fascist: he can't be, because he's funny. Who's the real threat to American democracy? It's the "blood-curdling" @samuelmoyn https://t.co/4JztGxSWtW
BREAKING | Final totals: books checked-out by 2023-24 CASBS fellows
🏆@arakeys
🥈@fstflofscholars
🥉@santifurnari
Same order as our mid-year reporting (see 🧵)
We note a gap-closing that, if successful, would've been documented in CASBS annals as "The RobleSurge"
But no.
Can anyone shed any light on a Nixon administration FRUS document that someone cited and seems to have been re-classified and taken off the website?? https://t.co/cAPEwS0Nzm
The story of Indian sociologist M. N. Srinivas’s 1978 book, The Remembered Village, is the subject of much lore. Sociologists will often say he wrote a better book *because* all his notes were burned in an arson event @CASBS in 1970 (probably Vietnam-related).
IT WAS 50 YEARS AGO TODAY
24 April 1970: Firebombing at CASBS! A renowned scholar lost almost everything.
From the ashes he somehow wrote a book considered a classic. The fire played THE defining role in shaping it. It's the stuff of legend.
STORY HERE: https://t.co/nInDSUGyRJ
But he also says he wrote “based entirely on my memory,” checking only some key facts against the original field notes that had been in India during the fire. If he needed only his memory, why was so much money and labor spent reconstructing his processed field notes?
@NewYorker On the basis of this @NewYorker piece about #TartVinegar, I ordered a bottle for $38. It arrived in a box with no padding, crushed into a hundred pieces. When I asked for a refund, here’s how Chris Crawford responded:
@NewYorker On the basis of this @NewYorker piece about #TartVinegar, I ordered a bottle for $38. It arrived in a box with no padding, crushed into a hundred pieces. When I asked for a refund, here’s how #TartVinegar responded:
Historian friends, imagine publishing a peer-reviewed article in a scholarly journal that is based on two books and three online sources, one of which is Wikipedia.
It's not just Yes, Minister; private secretaries are funny irl! This is one commenting on a 1980s private conversation between Henry Kissinger and the PM:
“The Prime Minister took [his] catalogue of woe with equanimity - that, I suppose, being the only alternative to suicide.”