James Rosen Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

James Rosen

Most of the predictions about twenty-first century communications that were made in this ad, drawn by the late, great ⁦@nealadamsdotcom⁩ and published in the November 1962 edition of BOYS LIFE, came true. https://t.co/0HwosgpdOI

James Rosen

To mark #Watergate at 50, I am pleased to host a discussion with historian @jeffersonmorley on his new book, SCORPIONS' DANCE, about the stormy relationship between President Nixon and @CIA, for the @IntlSpyMuseum on Friday, June 17, at noon. To register: https://t.co/Vg0NY057cj https://t.co/OzoSYuXpcc

James Rosen

So Robert Penn Warren was born #OTD in 1905. Did you know he wrote "All the King's Men" in my house? I described this staggering discovery, made nine years after we took occupancy of the house, in an essay published in @psychologytoday back in 2016: https://t.co/3I8GoBn2DN

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For cool new essays on the Decade of Shocks (Dallas to #Watergate, maybe Ali-Frazier III) check out the independent @GarrisonJournal. I don't endorse everything in it but it merits reading. The new issue includes my eulogy for Len Colodny of "Silent Coup": https://t.co/VSNbyUHfwF

James Rosen

Mr. Morrow, for many years an essayist at Time magazine, looks back on a long and eventful career in journalism in “The Noise of Typewriters,” a memoir that is less a sequential narrative than a series of impressions and vignettes, unabashedly digressive, invariably provocative.

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@LauraL2126 @stillgray .I wrote about these matters, drawing on previously unpublished tapes, documents, and interviews, in my book, “The Strong Man: John Mitchell and the Secrets of Watergate” (2008), and more recently, citing even more newly declassified evidence, here: https://t.co/JnRRwPuoR7

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PRE-ORDER NOW: "Scalia: Rise to Greatness, 1936-1986," the first admiring biography of Antonin Scalia, chronicles his rise to the #SupremeCourt with new documents and interviews. Here at last, the making of an American hero for all seasons, the embodiment of the #AmericanDream. https://t.co/bTj6NwlhYR

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@OneSweetDreamDi They were not fine. The Jesus furor unnerved them and radicalized John. “They’re going to crucify me,” he wrote three years later. The episode led him to believe he’d be shot to death by a religious fanatic—a prophesy Cynthia recorded in “A Twist of Lennon”—and he ultimately was.

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@BartonBishoff Beatle!: The Pete Best Story https://t.co/RKX7WSrt9K

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“The mystery of madness hangs over the world like a cry at night.” — Janet Malcolm in “Still Pictures: On Photography and Memory” (2023) https://t.co/3IGT4Lsmzl

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