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FT Magazine
A personal history of America’s historian-in-chief
...dual biography of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt....
April 20, 2024
News in-depthUS presidential election 2024
Trump and Haley offer clashing visions of America’s place in the world
...At a rally in Franklin, New Hampshire, on Monday, Haley retorted: “[Trump] says that I love war. Quite the contrary....
January 23, 2024
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival
Where the FT Weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 7 September London, UK
The Big Read
Franklin Templeton: an old-school stockpicker tries to reinvent itself
...The family still owns 42 per cent of the stock — a stake currently valued at $6.3bn — and dominates the top jobs. In addition to Greg, her uncle Rupert Jr is vice-chair....
January 26, 2023
ReviewBiography and memoir
Morgenthau by Andrew Meier — power, privilege and the making of modern America
...There are also candid and cosy scenes with Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, from cocktails on the beach to a debutante party in the White House for Henry Jr’s daughter Joan....
September 29, 2022
FT Swamp Notes
Kissinger was right about this Premium content
...The Washington Post’s always sage EJ Dionne Jr captures the stakes — and utter recklessness — and points out that “the cruelty is the point”....
May 26, 2023
InterviewLunch with the FT
‘He is driven by demons’: biographer Walter Isaacson on Elon Musk
...Chasing a controversial innovator was not a novel task for Isaacson: he has already penned hefty, bestselling biographies of Steve Jobs, Jennifer Doudna, Leonardo da Vinci, Albert Einstein and Benjamin Franklin...
September 15, 2023
FT Live
Business of Entertainment Summit
Capitalizing on Disruption
Thursday, 19 SeptemberLos Angeles, CA
ReviewTheatre
Five stars for Best of Enemies, a scintillating, perfectly-timed play
...In this case it’s 1968 and the launch of a series of late-night television debates between the maverick liberal author Gore Vidal and the arch conservative commentator William F Buckley Jr....
December 1, 2022
ReviewTheatre
Best of Enemies — James Graham’s gripping culture-war drama
...In the political uproar and shaking certainties, the US television network ABC tries to boost poor ratings with a series of late-night debates between arch-conservative William F Buckley Jr and maverick...
December 10, 2021
InterviewTelevision
Cynthia Erivo and Suzan-Lori Parks on the alchemy of Aretha Franklin
...(The subject of the fourth series will be Martin Luther King Jr.) Franklin had been in touch with Parks during her final years. “She wanted me to write a stage musical of her life....
May 28, 2021
JPMorgan Chase & Co
The slow-motion succession battles atop the Houses of Morgan
...That has been the practice in all recent chief executive successions at JPMorgan, including when Dimon took over from William Harrison, Jr....
May 21, 2021
Due Diligence
The banker, the Porsche deal and the Deutsche Bank investigation Premium content
...Get the full story from the FT’s Josh Franklin here....
January 26, 2022
Letter
Letter: FDR’s Democratic identity was chosen, not inherited
...There were just too many of Teddy’s ambitious family in the Republican party, including sons Theodore Jr, Kermit, Archie and Quentin....
April 27, 2021
Courtney Weaver
Covid-19 strips the last spontaneity out of a tired political drama
...Conventions hosted the crowds, without the guests of honour — until Franklin D Roosevelt broke with tradition in 1932, appearing in person to promise “a new deal for the American people"....
August 24, 2020
Person in the News
Mitch McConnell, the US Senate’s Republican roadblock
...A few years later, he attended the 1963 March on Washington where Martin Luther King Jr delivered his “I have a dream” speech....
November 13, 2020
US presidential election 2020
Biden pledges to ‘restore soul of America’ in bipartisan victory speech
...“It’s long overdue,” Mr Biden said before paraphrasing a famed quotation by Martin Luther King Jr: “Once again, America has bent the arc of the moral universe towards justice.”...
November 8, 2020
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
Person in the News
Joe Biden: the new president seeks to heal a divided US
...Busts of civil rights activists Martin Luther King Jr, Rosa Parks and labour leader César Chavez sit near his political hero Bobby Kennedy, and a portrait of Franklin Roosevelt has replaced Mr Trump’s choice...
January 22, 2021
Lunch with the FTLunch with the FT: top 10 interviews from 2020
Mary Trump: ‘At least the Borgias supported the arts’
...I mean, FDR [Franklin Delano Roosevelt] had polio and was in a wheelchair but he was perfectly capable of being president and getting us through World War II....
August 7, 2020
FT Magazine
Why US evangelicals are flocking to Trump
...(It was the start of a scandal that would eventually lead to Falwell Jr’s resignation from the university.)...
October 2, 2020
Theatre to watch in London and beyond
9 to 5: The Musical — Dolly Parton movie gets workaday stage makeover
...stick-it-to-the-chauvinist revenge fantasy in which three women conspire to overthrow their “sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot” of a boss, Franklin Hart Jr....
February 18, 2019
ObituaryMusic
Aretha Franklin, Queen of Soul, 1942-2018
...She married twice and is survived by her four sons: Clarence and Edward Franklin, Ted White Jr and Kecalf Cunningham....
August 16, 2018
Music
Pop goes the orchestra: reviving past glories with a classical twist
...“I’m a big Elvis fan, and my brothers and I were a little jealous of If I Can Dream,” says Roy Orbison Jr....
November 23, 2018
World
US evangelist Billy Graham dies aged 99
...William Franklin Graham Jr was born on November 7, 1918, on a dairy farm outside Charlotte, North Carolina....
February 21, 2018
Life & Arts
The Hollywood cool of the Hotel Del Coronado
...The Del’s founders, Elisha Babcock Jr and Hampton L Story, saw the potential in what is still one of California’s finest beaches....
July 13, 2018
Life & Arts
Beatrix Farrand’s US gardens are a legacy of a gilded age
...On January 4 1899, when Frederick Law Olmsted Jr, a landscape architect like his father who designed New York’s Central Park, and nine men met in New York as founders of the American Society of Landscape...
January 5, 2018
Life & Arts
Barack Obama’s presidential library: beyond the archetype
...Truman’s and Bush Jr’s look like mausoleums, JFK’s could be compared to a rocket launch pad and Reagan’s to a California outlet mall....
June 5, 2017

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