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The Kennedys of Massachusetts.
“The Kennedys of Massachusetts: Founding Father Joseph Patrick Kennedy’s (1888-1969) Influence on U.S. President John F. Kennedy (1917-63) and U.S. Senators Robert F. Kennedy (1925-68) and Edward M. Kennedy (1932-).”   Dialogue Given to Book Review......Read More
Posted on: 2009-06-22 21:32:40 |  Rating: | Views: 106 | Comments: 0 | Tags: bay of pigs invasion  bobby kennedy  cuban missile crisis  jaqueline kennedy  joseph p. kennedy jr.  joseph p. kennedy Sr.  kennedy-nixon debates  nuclear warfare  politics  pres. john f. Kennedy  ted 
The Kennedys of Massachusetts.
“The Kennedys of Massachusetts: Founding Father Joseph Patrick Kennedy’s (1888-1969) Influence on U.S. President John F. Kennedy (1917-63) and U.S. Senators Robert F. Kennedy (1925-68) and Edward M. Kennedy (1932-).” Dialogue Given to Book Review Group, Uplands......Read More
Posted on: 2009-06-22 21:32:36 |  Rating: | Views: 28 | Comments: 0 | Tags: bay of pigs invasion  bobby kennedy  cuban missile crisis  jaqueline kennedy  joseph p. kennedy jr.  joseph p. kennedy Sr.  kennedy-nixon debates  nuclear warfare  politics  pres. john f. Kennedy  ted 
“Iraq: Where Do We Go From Here?” by bfparker@
“Iraq: Where Do We Go From Here?” By Franklin and Betty Parker, bfparker@frontiernet.net (Updated from "Lion and the Lamb" column of the Crossville Chronicle (TN), Wednesday, May 23, 2007, p. 4). Eight years into the 21st century the 5-year Iraq War goes......Read More
Posted on: 2008-08-01 12:42:48 |  Rating: | Views: 88 | Comments: 0 | Tags: middle east  war and peace  u.s. as world policeman  invasion over oil 
How the U.S.A. Became the World's Policeman, by bf
“How the U.S.A. Became the World's Policeman.” By Franklin Parker and Betty J. Parker, bfparker@frontiernet.net Review of with Commentary on Warren Zimmermann, First Great Triumph: How Five Americans Made Their Country a World Power. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux,......Read More
Posted on: 2008-08-01 10:11:43 |  Rating: | Views: 594 | Comments: 0 | Tags: usa  imperialism  spanish-american war  theodore roosevelt  sen. henry cabot lodge  historian frederck jackson turner  1899  alfred thayer mahan  pres mckinley  remember the maine 
Eric Hoffer (1902-83) Remembered:Guru of the 1950s
Eric Hoffer (1902-83) Remembered: Guru of the 1950s-60s. By Franklin and Betty J. Parker, bfparker@frontiernet.net If you've never heard of Eric Hoffer, you are in for a surprise. Hoffer was rare. He was a laboring man and self-taught philosopher; a Los Angeles skid row tramp......Read More
Posted on: 2008-07-29 09:45:19 |  Rating: | Views: 1537 | Comments: 0 | Tags: 1930s depression  hobo turned writer  influence of Montaigne  Francis Bacon  communism  fascism 
Abraham and Simon Flexner: Medical Edn. Reform USA
“Abraham and Simon Flexner: Medical Education Reformers in the U.S.A.” Dialogue by Franklin and Betty Parker,   bfparker@frontiernet.net Betty:   We begin with Abraham Flexner’s An Autobiography (NYC: Simon & Schuster, 1960) which describes......Read More
Posted on: 2008-07-29 09:29:17 |  Rating: | Views: 140 | Comments: 0 | Tags: medical education reform  abraham flexner  carnegie foundation  Rockefeller foundation  johns hopkins medical school  louisville ky 
Cyrus West Field (1819-92):Laying...Atlantic Cable
“Cyrus West Field (1819-92): Laying the Atlantic Cable, 1866; A  Dialogue.” By Franklin Parker and Betty J. Parker, bfparker@frontiernet.net (First published by the authors as “Laying the Atlantic Cable, 1866: A Social Studies Dialogue, “Review Journal......Read More
Posted on: 2008-07-28 23:03:36 |  Rating: | Views: 195 | Comments: 0 | Tags: atlantic cable  samuel f.b. morse  peter cooper  1850s-60s  Ireland to New Foundland 
Philip Vickers Fithian (1747-1776), a Princeton Tu
“Philip Vickers Fithian (1747-1776), a Princeton Tutor on a Virginia Plantation.” By Franklin and Betty J. Parker, bfparker@frontiernet.net Philip Vickers Fithian was a northern tutor on a southern plantation just before the American Revolution.  His journal and......Read More
Posted on: 2008-07-28 22:36:31 |  Rating: | Views: 61 | Comments: 0 | Tags: colonial southern plantation  tutor  teaching  Am. Revolution  college of NJ  Princeton 
Albert Einstein (1879-1955) Changed the Way We See
“ How Albert Einstein (1879-1955) Changed the Way We See the Universe.”   By Franklin and Betty J. Parker, bfparker@frontiernet.net Review of Walter Isaacson's Einstein, His Life and Universe, NY: Simon & Schuster, 2007, and Related Sources, Given as Dialogue,......Read More
Posted on: 2008-07-28 22:13:16 |  Rating: | Views: 154 | Comments: 2 | Tags: einstein  e=mc2  science  atom bomb 
Civil Rights: Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Jr.
Civil Rights: Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Jr. & Myles Horton in Tennessee By Franklin and Betty J. Parker, bfparker@frontiernet.net May 17, 2008, marked the 54th year since passage of the Brown v. Board of Education, when the U.S. Supreme Court declared separate white and......Read More
Posted on: 2008-07-28 16:36:35 |  Rating: | Views: 382 | Comments: 0 | Tags: civil rights  Rosa Parks  Martin Luther King  Jr.  Myles Horton in TN  montgomery alabama 

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