George H.W. Bush has died, which means some work I contributed to THE once mighty Time Inc empire has finally seen the light of day. Five or six years ago. when Steve Koepp was running Time books, he recruited me to contribute to a few of the books they were producing. President Bush was feeling …
There was a moment on D-Day, related in Cornelius Ryan’s great history The Longest Day, when American troops landing on Utah beach discovered they had disembarked their landing craft in the wrong place, at a point significantly removed from the planned point of attack. Surrounded by confused and anxious captains, Gen. Theodore Roosevelt Jr., the …