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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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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‘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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‘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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Getting to know Lincoln:
New biographies mark bicentennial
12:00 AM CDT on Sunday, October 12, 2008
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 of Equality.” Even though the Lincoln landscape […]

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‘Douglass and Lincoln’ and ‘President Lincoln: Duty of a Statesman’ portray a master of statecraft
HISTORY: New books portray the Civil War president as a master of statecraft

12:00 AM CST on Sunday, February 17, 2008
By KASEY S. PIPES / Special Contributor to The Dallas Morning News
books@dallasnews.com The old debate over how and why Abraham Lincoln waged […]

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Stephen Berry looks at President Lincoln’s in-laws in ‘House of Abraham’
HISTORY: Intriguing book paints the president as a humane man dogged by a troubled family

12:00 AM CST on Sunday, December 23, 2007
By KASEY S. PIPES / Special Contributor to The Dallas Morning News

books@dallasnews.com Beginning with Walt Whitman, writers immortalized Abraham Lincoln until […]

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