John Prados

A Jewish State

By Theodor Herzl

Theodor Herzl proposes a solution to the 'Jewish Question' and to anti-Semitism: a separate and independent ...

My Father's Girl

By Jane Addams

Jane Addams, whose Hull-House became a symbol of progressive reform, here remembers her father who helped ...

Paris Goes to War

By Edith Wharton

As the World War engulfs Europe in August 1914, Edith Wharton reports from Paris on the ...

Emancipation

By Lord Charwood

Lord Charnwood recounts the development and importance of Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, a signal event in American ...

Darwin Changes His Mind

By Charles Darwin

Here is Darwin’s account of his visit to the Galapagos Islands with its myriad species, which ...

A Grand Way to Chronicle a War

By Ronald Weber

A fascinating glimpse of World War II journalism behind the front lines at Paris’s Hotel Scribe, ...

The Genius and the Jerk

By Walter Vatter

Walter Vatter explores the early years of Steve Jobs--was he a genius, or simply an expert ...

Plunkitt of Tammany Hall

By William L. Riordon

“I seen my opportunities and I took ’em,” said George Washington Plunkitt in this charming manual ...

Too Fantastic to Be True

Even when the “final solution” became apparent, why did the ...

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John Prados is a senior fellow of the National Security Archive at George Washington University. He is the author of more than twenty books in the field, including Safe for Democracy: The Secret Wars of the CIA; Vietnam: The History of an Unwinnable War, 1945–1975; Combined Fleet Decoded: The Secret History of U.S. Intelligence and the Japanese Navy in World War II; and Keepers of the Keys: A History of the National Security Council from Truman to Bush. He lives in Silver Spring, Maryland.

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