“How We Forgot the Cold War.”
Panel with Bill Boyarsky, Joe Matthews, moderator.
West Hollywood Book Fair
West Hollywood Library and West Hollywood Park,
625 N. San Vicente Blvd. Sept. 30, 2012, 10:30
http://www.westhollywoodbookfair.org/?p=6644
Forgetting the Cuban Missile Crisis: LA Times, 10/14
“The ’13 Days in October,” 50 Years Later.” Conservatives at the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis accused President Kennedy of capitulation in the Cuban missile crisis. No more.
Los Angeles Times op-ed page, Oct. 14, 2012.
http://lat.ms/RqcE8r
Cold War Elvis: The Daily Beast, 10/14
“Elvis Presley: America’s Secret Cold War Weapon.” The King of Rock became a one-man special force against the East Germans, even as he questioned the validity of the conflict itself.
(excerpt from How We Forget the Cold War: A Historical Journey across America.) The Daily Beast, Oct. 14, 2012.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/10/14/elvis-presley-america-s-secret-weapon-in-the-cold-war.html
Debate over Whittaker Chambers: Salon.com 10/14
Whittaker Chambers’ grandson David says “Dr. Jon Wiener needs to set some facts straight” in his article at Salon.com about visiting the Pumpkin Patch National Historic Landmark . . . .
And Dr. Wiener replies, “Readers can be assured I did indeed visit the site.”
. . . continued at Salon.com HERE
The Right’s Least Popular Museum: Salon.com, 10/13
“A Visit to the Right’s Least Popular Museum.” The GOP insisted Whittaker Chambers’ pumpkin patch become a historical site. It averages two guests a year. Salon.com, Oct. 13, 2012.
(Excerpted from How We Forgot the Cold War: A Historical Journey across America.)
http://www.salon.com/2012/10/13/wiener_excerpt/
L.A. Humanities Institute: Sept. 21
“How We Forgot the Cold Wa: A Historical Journey across America.”
Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities at USC
Friday, Sept. 21, 2012.
Doheny Library room 231, 12-2pm.
http://www.usc.edu/libraries/partners/laih/
Gay Baiting Gore Vidal: 1960 Politics – HuffPost 10/8
Gore Vidal was not just a novelist and essayist; he also ran for Congress in 1960 in upstate New York. In a 1988 interview I asked him whether there was any gay-baiting in that campaign.
“Even then it was considered bad karma to fuck around with old Gore,” he told me. . .
. . . continued at the Huffington Post HERE
Tribute to Hobsbawm: LA Review of Books, 10/4
ERIC HOBSBAWM, who died October 1 at age 95, was one of the world’s greatest historians, and also a Marxist. He was not just an academic — he was also a lifelong Communist with a capital “C,” a full-fledged member of the Party since his teenage years.. . .
. . . continued at the LA Review of Books HERE.
Bob Dylan’s ‘Tempest’: Q&A with Greil Marcus: The Nation 10/2
Jon Wiener: How does Dylan sound to you on Tempest?
Greil Marcus: He sounds like himself. He sounds sly, as he’s always sounded. He sounds as if there’s a twinkle in his eye; as if there’s a joke he’s letting you in on, maybe halfway, and you’ll have to find your way to the end of the joke yourself. That’s pretty much been his mode all along.
. . . continued at TheNation.com HERE
Rick Perlstein’s Presidential Debate Prep: KPFK 10/3
Romney debates Obama tonight at 6: we’ll get ready for the debate at 4:00 with RICK PERLSTEIN: will the candidates say anything they haven’t said a thousand times already? Will the pundits declare Romney the winner because he didn’t make another terrible “gaffe”? Rick is the author of the classic Nixonland; he wrote about the Republican National Convention for The Nation.
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Also: with BOB DYLAN’s new album “Tempest,” we’re back in the old, weird America: SEAN WILENTZ will comment; he’s the official historian-in-residence at the official BobDylan.com website, and author of Bob Dylan in America, our featured thank-you gift in the KPFK fun drive today (along with the beautiful vinyl version of “Tempest.”) Please call and pledge during the show: 818-985-5735, or online at kpfk.org.