Doris Kearns Goodwin and Jon Meacham Reflections on Jan. 6th.

Mike Magee On the one year anniversary of the June 6th Insurrection, historians were well represented by two of their own – Jon Meacham and Doris Kearns Goodwin – who were invited to address members of Congress in a session moderated by Carla D. Hayden, Librarian of Congress. Here is a review for your reflection […]

A Call For Positive Leadership Across The Ages

Mike Magee This has been a week of past, present and future. This week I completed Doris Kearns Goodwin’s “Team of Rivals”. (1) In her introduction, the author states, “”I find that after nearly two centuries, the uniquely American story of Abraham Lincoln has unequalled power to captivate the imagination and to inspire emotion.” In […]

Lincoln’s Voice In Newtown, CT

Mike Magee As Vice President Biden prepares to deliver his recommendations to President Obama tomorrow on gun violence in America, and with the NRA’s president, David Keene’s assertion yesterday that “I would say that the likelihood is that they’re not going to be able to get an assault weapons ban through this Congress”(1), America once […]