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Benjamin V. Allison

Review of History and Fate: The Goodwins and the 1960s at the Briscoe Center

March 20, 2025

The Briscoe Center’s latest exhibit, History and Fate, is drawn from the personal papers of Richard (Dick) and Doris Kearns Goodwin. The pair met after their time in the Lyndon Johnson administration, in which Dick, a holdover from the Kennedy administration, had been one of Johnson’s principle speechwriters until 1965, and in which Doris was […]

From Camp David to Baghdad: Scrambling for and Against Peace in the Middle East, Fall 1978

January 19, 2023

Commentators and scholars have long represented the United States as the supreme guarantor of a well-tempered international order. Today, however, agents of American international relations find themselves confronting uncertainty both at home and abroad. Nevertheless, as they navigate the uncharted waters of contemporary global politics, representatives of the United States and its international interlocutors can […]

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