Alan Jacobs

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  • Apr 10, 2026
    About a hundred pages into historian Douglas Brinkley’s Silent Spring Revolution: John F. Kennedy, Rachel Carson, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, and the Great...
  • Mar 16, 2026
    At the 1938 Academy Awards, the Oscar for Best Directing went to Leo McCarey for his movie The Awful Truth. You could scarcely say that the honor was undeserved, especially in...