War in Sudan: One Year on…
Liberation
'The Afghanistan Papers' reveal how senior U.S. officials made rosy pronouncements they knew to be false and hid evidence the war had become unwinnable throughout the 18-year campaign.
Little is known about the veracity of the so-called Burr Conspiracy, the alleged effort by Aaron Burr to split off the western territories to form a separate nation in the early 1800s. People, the book's author writes, clung to familiar stories; they ‘embraced different certainties’ regardless of new information and revelations. Burr was judged on what was viscerally believed in a politically divided United States, whose easy acceptance of felt truths resembles our own.
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