11:03 AM CDT on Sunday, August 22, 2010 By KASEY S. PIPES/Special Contributor to The Dallas Morning News One of the great ironies of 20th century history is how the greatest figure on the world stage could have simultaneously been so right and so wrong.
The paradox of Winston Churchill’s leadership was displayed […]

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Book review: ‘Valley of Death’
by Ted Morgan

12:00 AM CST on Sunday, March 7, 2010
By KASEY S. PIPES / Special Contributor to The Dallas Morning News
Kasey S. Pipes, the author of Ike’s Final Battle, is the Norris research fellow at the Eisenhower Institute and a senior fellow […]

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TEA PARTIERS’ FAMILY FEUD POLITICS
By KASEY S. PIPES | 3/4/10 5:16 AM EST

If Colin Powell were ever to become president, Grover Norquist famously joked in the 1990s, it would be as if Ronald Reagan never lived and Nelson Rockefeller never […]

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How Monty, Patton outfoxed the Desert Fox
12:00 AM CST on Sunday, November 29, 2009
By KASEY S. PIPES / Special Contributor to The Dallas Morning News
Kasey S. Pipes is the author of Ike’s Final Battle and is the Norris Research Fellow at the Eisenhower Institute and a senior fellow at the Center for Building Community. […]

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Book review: ‘Churchill’ by Paul Johnson
12:00 AM CST on Sunday, November 22, 2009
By KASEY S. PIPES / Special Contributor to The Dallas Morning News
Kasey S. Pipes is the author of Ike’s Final Battle and is the Norris Research Fellow at the Eisenhower Institute and a Senior Fellow at the Center for Building Community.
 
In 1946, […]

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Book review:
‘The Year That Changed the World: The Untold Story Behind the Fall of the Berlin Wall’ by Michael Meyer

12:00 AM CDT on Sunday, September 13, 2009
By KASEY S. PIPES / Special Contributor to The Dallas Morning News
Kasey S. Pipes is the author of Ike’s Final […]

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As the president fought for his economic recovery agenda, the Republicans launched a fierce counterattack. The president’s plan, according to Newt Gingrich, would “kill jobs” and “actually increase the deficit.”
This was not Gingrich criticizing the Obama stimulus program in 2009. It was Gingrich attacking then-President Bill Clinton’s economic plan in 1993.
This week, as President Barack […]

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‘Plain, Honest Men’
by Richard Beeman: a dramatic account of the debates that forged the U.S. Constitution

DALLAS MORNING NEWS 12:00 AM CDT on Sunday, March 29, 2009
By KASEY S. PIPES / Special Contributor to The Dallas Morning News

Kasey S. Pipes, a former speechwriter for George W. Bush, […]

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Why Obama should confront his base
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By KASEY S. PIPES | […]

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‘With Wings Like Eagles’ by
Michael Korda: A fresh look at the Battle of Britain
12:00 AM CST on Sunday, January 11, 2009
By KASEY S. PIPES / Special Contributor to The Dallas Morning News
books@dallasnews.com Kasey S. Pipes is the author of Ike’s Final Battle: The Road to Little Rock and the Challenge […]

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