Glen Jeansonne
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Glen Jeansonne and David Luhrssen describe how the pioneer aviator Charles Lindbergh was increasingly disturbed by the tension between technology and its impact on the environment. In his later career, in the 1960s, Lindbergh became a spokesman for the embryonic environmental movement as they describe here. Published December 12 2007
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Published September 18 2007
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Elvis Presley died thirty years ago this month. As a young man, he had little interest in politics and rejected the embedded racism of fellow southerners in his affinity for blues music. What drove him into the office of President Nixon in 1970? Glen Jeansonne and David Luhrssen look at how the King of Rock’n’Roll managed his rule during the cultural shifts of the 1960s.
Published July 10 2007
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Glen Jeansonne sees the former president as a mirror of his age. Published July 21 2004
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Glen Jeansonne and David Luhrrsen on Gerald L.K. Smith, orator of the far right
Published November 16 2001
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Glen Jeansonne describes the anti--war, anti-liberal and antisemitic Mothers’ Movement that attracted a mass following in the United States in the 1930s and 1940s.
Published December 1 1999
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Glen Jeansonne outlines how US involvement radically transformed American culture and society.
Published April 30 1995
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