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An Unfinished Love Story — Doris Kearns Goodwin on her husband’s Kennedy-era world
...During the decade, Dick Goodwin became close to two presidents — John F Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson — and played an important role in the 1968 White House campaigns of both insurgent senator “clean” Eugene...
April 9, 2024
Investments
Saxo’s outrageous predictions for 2024 sure are outrageous
...Robert F. Kennedy Jr wins the 2024 US presidential election As discontent with Biden and Trump rises to fever pitch, Robert F. Kennedy Jr sees his support rising inexorably in the polls....
December 5, 2023
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
Edward Luce
The paranoid style in American politics
...America, as Richard Hofstadter wrote a few years before RFK’s death, suffers from periodic waves of paranoia....
June 7, 2023
US presidential election 2024
Could the Democrats replace Joe Biden?
...Robert F Kennedy Jr — son of the 1968 candidate — has already launched an independent bid, and Jill Stein and Cornel West have mounted their own campaigns from the left....
February 9, 2024
FT Alphaville
QAnon, a year after Q
...The recent gathering of Q followers at Dallas’ Dealey Plaza to greet John F Kennedy Junior’s triumphant return on the basis his death was faked is both evidence of the continued power of QAnon’s ideology...
December 8, 2021
Crossword
Crossword and Polymath competitions suspended
...London Crossword 16,278: Peter Bromwich, Birmingham; James Reid, Fife, Scotland; EASherratt, Staffordshire, England Polymath 1,040: Patricia Blakemore, West Midlands, England Crossword 16,272: Martha F...
June 5, 2020
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival: U.S. edition
Where the Financial Times weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 4 MayThe REACH, at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, F Street Northwest, Washington, DC, USA
ReviewTheatre
Brian Cox is a tenacious Lyndon Johnson in The Great Society in New York
...(Grantham Coleman), defence secretary Robert McNamara (Matthew Rauch), Alabama governor George Wallace (David Garrison), Chicago mayor Richard Daley (Marc Kudisch) and his arch-nemesis Robert F....
October 2, 2019
FT Magazine
A new exhibition explores masculinity, from the tough to the tender
...Who’s who in Richard Avedon’s ‘The Family’ First row (left to right): Richard Kleindienst, former US attorney-general, Washington, DC, July 29 1976; James Skelly Wright, circuit judge, US Court of Appeals...
January 31, 2020
FT SeriesSummer Books 2019
Summer books of 2019: Economics
...Firefighting: The Financial Crisis and its Lessons, by Ben S Bernanke, Timothy F Geithner and Henry M Paulson Jr, Penguin, RRP$16/Profile, RRP£9.99 If what these three men did during the financial crisis...
June 21, 2019
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
FT MagazineSimon Kuper
Brexit, Trump and a generation of incompetents
...Bush Jr ran a baseball club, Boris Johnson wrote funny columns, and Trump played a successful businessman on television....
December 14, 2017
Retail sector
Olivia Burton fashion watch brand sold for £60m
...The Marcus boutique was billed as containing “the most important collection of watches in the world” with independent brands such as Richard Mille, MB&F and Greubel Forsey....
September 2, 2017
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
FT Best ofFT Weekend’s best long reads of 2017
Ivanka Trump: ‘I will not be distracted by the noise’
...The trauma of her father’s affair with Marla Maples brought her and her two brothers – Don Jr and Eric Trump – closer together....
September 14, 2017
Edward Luce
Why Cleveland will be haunted by the ghosts of Chicago 1968
...Outside, mayor Richard Daley’s cops beat up the protesting hippies....
April 10, 2016
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival
Where the FT Weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 7 September London, UK
Recruitment
Diversity champions: UPstanding’s top 100 ethnic-minority executives
...William F. Kornegay, Jr. Senior vice-president, supply management, Hilton Worldwide 11. Ken Olisa Chairman, Restoration Partners 12....
May 26, 2016
LombardRetail & Consumer industry
Drax discards White Rose as UK policy shifts from green to Amber
...His successor, Richard Ensor, leaves next week not in atonement for a cliché, but because 39 years at one employer is long enough....
September 24, 2015
Life & Arts
Sinatra’s way
...The timespan covers the singer’s Rat Pack heyday, joshing about with Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr, and his undignified role as President John F Kennedy’s friend-stroke-procurer....
December 11, 2015
ReviewLife & Arts
All the Way, Neil Simon Theatre, New York
...With help from director Bill Rauch, Schenkkan concentrates on the more thematically neat contrast between Johnson and Martin Luther King, Jr....
March 7, 2014
Life & Arts
A cultivated taste: the Bunny Mellon auction
...Her first marriage, to the businessman, horse breeder, farmer and yachtsman Stacy Barcroft Lloyd Jr, produced two children and ended in divorce in 1946....
November 14, 2014
ObituaryUS & Canadian companies
Publisher who globalised New York Times
...At his first meeting with John F. Kennedy that year, the president berated him for the paper’s critical coverage of the Vietnam war, demanding that he reassign its correspondent, David Halberstam....
September 30, 2012
US downturn
Senators’ letter on Iran’s central bank
...Casey Jr. Senator Patrick J....
August 10, 2011
ObituaryWorld
Former vice presidential candidate Shriver dies
...Sargent Shriver, John F....
January 19, 2011
ObituaryTerrorism
‘Intellectual blood bank’ of JFK
...Richard Nixon said in 1962: “You need a mind like Sorensen’s around you that’s clicking and clicking all the time.” The Cuban missile crisis was the apotheosis of this....
November 6, 2010
Life & Arts
Feelgood factories
...A similar anti-union slant skews The Angry Silence (1960), starring Richard Attenborough as a factory worker persecuted by his colleagues for refusing to join an unofficial strike....
September 17, 2010

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