Evan Thomas

"Megan Marshall's brilliant Margaret Fuller brings us as close as we are ever likely to get to this astonishing creature. She rushes out at us from her nineteenth century, always several steps ahead, inspiring, heartbreaking, magnificent." Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, author of Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity

"Megan Marshall gives new meaning to close reading—from words on a page she conjures a fantastically rich inner life, a meld of body, mind, and soul. Drawing on the letters and diaries of Margaret Fuller and her circle, she has brought us a brave, visionary, sensual, tough-minded intellectual, a ‘first woman’ who was unique yet stood for all women. A masterful achievement by a great American writer and scholar.” Evan Thomas, author of Ike’s Bluff: President Eisenhower’s Secret Battle to Save the World

Megan Marshall is the author of The Peabody sisters, which won the Francis Parkman Prize, the Mark Lynton History Prize, the Massachusetts Book Award in Nonfiction, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in biography and memoir. Her essays and reviews have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, The Atlantic, and Slate. A recipient of Guggenheim and NEH fellowships, Marshall teaches narrative nonfiction and the art of archival research in the MFA program at Emerson College.

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In Thomas’s reassessment of Eisenhower’s presidency, the placid, even dull 1950s were anything but. Rather, the undemonstrative commander in chief was engaged in a high-stakes test of wills with China and the Soviet Union. Thomas, a veteran Time editor and the author of The war lovers, presents the former general as a master strategist and cool tactician.

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Evan Thomas discusses The War Lovers: Roosevelt, Lodge, Hearst, and the Rush to Empire, 1898.

On February 15, 1898, the USS Maine exploded in Havana Harbor. Though there was no evidence the Spanish government was responsible, newspapers, including William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal, excited the American public with claims that Spain's “secret infernal machine” had destroyed the battleship. Soon after, the United States declared war and sent troops to Cuba as well as the Spanish colony in the Philippines. In The War Lovers, Evan Thomas reveals a hunger for war that had begun years earlier. Embracing theories of social Darwinism, a group of warmongers that included the young Teddy Roosevelt and Senator Henry Cabot Lodge agitated that the United States exert its influence across the seas. This is he story of six men at the center of a transforming event in U.S. history: Roosevelt, Lodge, Hearst, President William McKinley, psychologist William James, and Speaker of the House Thomas Reed, and confirms Evan Thomas as a popular historian of the first rank. (jasbro)… (more)