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Reports
Aid to Brazil: From Dungeons to DisneylandTaylor Branch
Our men in Brazil report to Senator Frank Church: torture aside, things are looking fine.




The Critics
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Books: Roll Over, Madison (Review) Taylor Branch
A Necessary Evil, by Garry Wills
- A Necessary Evil by Garry Wills

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Books: The New, Unimproved Conspirator (2 Reviews) Taylor Branch and Leslie Epstein
Witness to Power, by John D. Ehrlichman
- Witness to Power by John D. Ehrlichman
- The Age of Wonders by Aharon Appelfeld

At Canaan's Edge (2006)Taylor Branch
America in the King Years, 1965-68
7 Reviews, 1 Readable

The Case Against FoundationsTaylor Branch
Foundations live on nostalgia, tax breaks, and the illusion that they are socially inn...

The Censors of BumbledomTaylor Branch
How the government plans to snatch victory from the jaws of its defeat in the Pentagon ...

The Clinton Tapes (2007)Taylor Branch
Wrestling History with the President
3 Reviews

Closets of PowerTaylor Branch
Dan Bradley became the highest government official yet to announce that he was homosexual

Courage Without Esteem: Profiles in Whistle-BlowingTaylor Branch
Speaking out for the public good can be disastrous for the private good--but six people...
The Washington Monthly, May 1971, pp. 23-43


On Political Books
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The Democratic Father of Modern Republicanism (Review) Taylor Branch
George Wallace: Racism, repentance, and the roots of scapegoating "big government."
- The Politics of Rage by Dan T. Carter

End FBI Background Checks and Peremptory Jury StrikesTaylor Branch
"In both instances, we genuflect to an archaic ritual."

First TromboneTaylor Branch
Martin Luther King, Jr., Holt St. Baptist Church, Montgomery, Alabama, December 5, 1955

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Following the Bouncing Ball (Review) Taylor Branch
The Breaks of the Game, by David Halberstam
- The Breaks of the Game by David Halberstam

Freedom of Choice Desegregation:The Southern RealityTaylor Branch
A native son's fresh and intimate look at non-desegregation in rural Georgia and how it...

The Screwing of the Average Man
Government Subsidies: Who Gets the $63 Billion?Taylor Branch
How the average man protects the few federal pennies in his left pocket, while the rich...

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Halberstam, Fitzgerald, Ellsberg: The Reporter, the Poetess, the Analyst (3 Reviews) Taylor Branch
David Halberstam's gossip, while genuinely fascinating, is not in the same league with ...
- The Best and the Brightest by David Halberstam
- Fire in the Lake by Frances FitzGerald
- Papers On the War by Daniel Ellsberg

On Political Books
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Hoover Damned (Review) Taylor Branch
Exposing the ultimate G-man--and finding the ultimate bureaucrat.
- J. Edgar Hoover: The Man and the Secrets by Curt Gentry

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If I Had a Hammer... (Review) Taylor Branch
I'd make Tom Hayden stop issuing manifestos. (And stick to his gifts for action.)
- Reunion by Tom Hayden
The Washington Monthly, May 1988, pp. 51-54

John Gardner and the Albany NymphettesTaylor Branch
What happened when a Common Cause lobbyist started using 15-year-old girls to enhance t...

The Kennedy VendettaTaylor Branch and George Crile III

Labyrinth (1982)Taylor Branch and Eugene M. Propper
How a Stubborn Prosecutor Penetrated a Shadowland of Covert Operations on Thr...
4 Reviews, 1 Readable

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Lessons from the Fringe (2 Reviews) Taylor Branch
What moderates can learn from Jesses Jackson and Helms.
- Hard Right: The Rise of Jesse Helms by Ernest B. Ferguson
- Thunder in America by Bob Faw and Nancy Skelton


The Macleish Memorandum on the National DebtTaylor Branch
The text of the secret proposal to cancel the national debt. Who will be hurt, who will...
The Washington Monthly, May 1972, pp. 29-39

The New AgrariansTaylor Branch
The life of an old Georgia farm hand is an argument against the new agrarians.

The Odd Couple: Ellsberg and OtepkaTaylor Branch
Conscience made both break security Ellsberg and Otepka rules, one to applause from th...

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On Political Books (Review) Taylor Branch
The Soviet Estimate, by John Prados
- The Soviet Estimate by John Prados

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On Political Books (2 Reviews) Taylor Branch
Harry in harried times.
- Conflict and Crisis by Robert J. Donovan
- Tumultuous Years by Robert J. Donovan

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On Political Books (Review) Taylor Branch
Hannah Arendt was an intellectual who believed the middle class was worth thinking about.
- Hannah Arendt: For the Love of the World by Elisabeth Young-Bruehl

The Ordeal of Legal ServicesTaylor Branch
The definitive, behind-the-scenes report of OEO guerrilla warfare: how Don Rumsfeld got...

Parting the Waters (1988)Taylor Branch
American in the King Years, 1954-63
10 Reviews, 1 Readable

Pat Moynihan's Ship of FoolsTaylor Branch
He had almost everyone supporting a guaranteed income for a few months in 1970. How lib...

Pillar of Fire (1998)Taylor Branch
America in the King Years, 1963-1965
7 Reviews

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Political Booknotes (Review) Taylor Branch
The FBI and Martin Luther King, Jr, by David J. Garrow
- The FBI and Martin Luther King, Jr by David J. Garrow

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Political Booknotes (Review) Taylor Branch
The Fish Is Red, by Warren Hinckle and William W. Turner
- The Fish Is Red by Warren Hinckle and William W. Turner

Prisoners of War, Prisoners of PeaceTaylor Branch
The confessions of the most used group in the country, the POW families. How they are i...


Putting the Sex Back Into RapeTaylor Branch
Susan Brownmiller helps break down the walls we put around rape; but she can't break do...

The Rising Profits of Public ServiceTaylor Branch
Government salaries at the top levels have doubled since 1962, making disinterested pub...

On Political Books
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Robert Kennedy, Good andBad (Review) Taylor Branch
The scum and glory of later Camelot.
- In Love With Night by Ronald Steel

Second Wind (1980)Bill Russell and Taylor Branch
The Memoirs of an Opinionated Man
3 Reviews, 2 Readable

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A Soldier's Story (Review) Taylor Branch
John Paul Vann's one-man war against the Viet Cong and the Pentagon symbolizes all that...
- A Bright Shining Lie by Neil Sheehan

Special Political Book Section
The Sunday School FascistTaylor Branch
J. Edgar Hoover's American Dream

The Sunny Side of the Energy CrisisTaylor Branch
In which Congress fails to see the light, but a great seer predicts salvation


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The Ugly American and The Flexible Response (2 Reviews) Taylor Branch
Edward Lansdale and Maxwell Taylor were the intellectual fathers of our involvement in ...
- In the Midst of Wars by Edward G. Lansdale
- Swords and Plowshares by Maxwell D. Taylor


The Culture of Bureaucracy:
We're All Working for the Penn CentralTaylor Branch

We're All Working For the Penn CentralTaylor Branch
A journey through life at the government's frontier, starring SOHA, DETMAHOG, and other...

Why We Will Impeach HimTaylor Branch
A reluctant Congress moves grudgingly toward a decision it would prefer to avoid
The Harpers Monthly, May 1974, pp. 23-36

Features
The Year the GOP Went SouthTaylor Branch
How the 1964 Republican convention changed the face of the GOP.
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