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Janan Ganesh
OJ Simpson and the paradox of American power
...(I suggest Harry Truman, the president at the time, was the most powerful human being who has ever lived.)...
April 20, 2024
Letter
Letter: Truman’s actions over the bomb set cold war legacy
...In Janan Ganesh’s opinion piece about how maybe Harry Truman would be a better candidate for changing the world than J Robert Oppenheimer, the subject of Christopher Nolan’s film, there is one significant...
August 2, 2023
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
Janan Ganesh
‘Oppenheimer’ is a great film about the wrong man
...The fact that J Robert Oppenheimer agonised over his part in the creation of the atomic bomb is not interesting. Was he meant to whistle to work?...
July 25, 2023
Gideon Rachman
Israel, Oppenheimer and the laws of war
...Was J Robert Oppenheimer right to be racked by guilt? Or was President Harry Truman right to call him a “crybaby” — for regretting the last act of savagery needed to end a savage war?...
November 20, 2023
The Week Ahead
Week Ahead: UK rates set to hit 15-year high
...of the US president at the time, Harry Truman....
July 30, 2023
Nilanjana Roy
Harper Lee’s lost tale?
...As her biographer said: “The book rightfully should have been called In Cold Blood by Truman Capote with Harper Lee.”...
May 10, 2019
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival
Where the FT Weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 7 September London, UK
News in-depthThe Big Read
US higher education crisis: lessons from the Chicago schools
...Richard J Daley college focuses on manufacturing. Its recently-opened facility includes laser machines, robotic simulators and vinyl cutters. Harry S Truman, meanwhile, focuses on education....
March 17, 2019
Long Story Short
A selection of the FT’s biggest stories and best reads every Friday
...(The New Yorker) La Côte Basque, 1965 I recently discovered that the story that ended Truman Capote’s writing career is online, and it’s a treat....
April 26, 2019
The Art MarketMelanie Gerlis
Showcase for the season
...Moniker’s 10th edition opens at the Old Truman Brewery on Thursday....
September 28, 2018
US politics & policy
Britain pressed US to join Iran coup against Mosaddegh
...Follow David J Lynch on twitter: @davidjlynch Letter in response to this article: Take the long view on Middle East interventions / From Chris Kniel, Orinda, CA, US...
August 8, 2017
The Aesthete
Fashion designer Erdem Moralioglu on the “ultra-cool” Truman Capote, an unforgettable villa in Positano and Paris’ Porte de Vanves fleamarket
...My style icon is the young Truman Capote – his nipped-in suits were very snappy and I’ve always thought he looked ultra-cool....
June 28, 2017
US politics & policy
Unlikely White House counsel at the centre of Trump drama
...Follow David J Lynch on Twitter: @davidjlynch...
May 29, 2017
US politics & policy
What are executive orders and why is Trump using them?
...In 1952, President Harry Truman seized the nation’s steel mills, fearing a possible steel strike during the Korean war....
January 29, 2017
US presidential election
Clintons’ accumulation of wealth invites campaign attacks
...Harry Truman’s steep income decline once his term ended led Congress in 1958 to establish the presidential pension....
October 13, 2016
Nicholas Burns
The next American president must look to Europe first
...The writer is a professor at Harvard’s Kennedy School and a former US undersecretary of state Letter in response to this article It’s time to put America first / From Michael J Bond...
November 2, 2016
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
Life & Arts
London Design Festival: what to look out for this year
...To the east, Tent London and Super Brands London unite at the Old Truman Brewery under a new umbrella title — the London Design Fair....
September 9, 2016
ObituaryUS & Canadian companies
Jack Lindquist, Disney theme park innovator, 1927-2016
...He quickly grasped the benefits of celebrity culture, arranging access for guests such as Temple, Jayne Mansfield and Harry Truman....
March 4, 2016
Jan Dalley
Literary world revives a reclusive mockingbird
...For the young Ms Lee’s friend, and the model for To Kill a Mockingbird’s wild and unhappy Dill, was Truman Streckfus Persons, better known later as Truman Capote....
February 6, 2015
The FT ViewUS downturn
Bid farewell to America’s ‘worst Congress ever’
...By contrast, the 80th Congress, which Harry Truman labelled “Do Nothing”, passed four times as many bills as this one....
December 30, 2014
Life & Arts
The shifts in US national security policy since 9/11
...To Michael J Glennon, in National Security and Double Government, the shifting personalities are mere detail....
November 7, 2014
Cyber warfare
Obama is laying the foundations of a dystopian future
...J. Edgar Hoover, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation from 1935 to 1972, demonstrated this truth over a long and ignominious career....
July 10, 2013
Q&ALife & Arts
Small Talk: AM Homes
...I’ve also got Ben Fountain’s Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk and J.D. Salinger’s Nine Stories. Who would you most like to sit next to at a dinner party? Mick Jagger....
April 26, 2013
ReviewLife & Arts
Indispensable nation
...In 1946 Harry Truman, FDR’s successor, was planning to appoint White as the IMF’s first managing director until J....
February 8, 2013
ReviewLife & Arts
The Oppenheimer enigma
...Inside the Centre: The Life of J....
November 16, 2012
ReviewLife & Arts
Books of the Year
...Owen LITERARY NON-FICTION White Girls , by Hilton Als, McSweeney’s, RRP$24 The New Yorker critic’s first major work since 1996’s The Women, this collection of essays parses cultural figures including Truman...
November 29, 2013

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