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Research Note: Winton M. Blount Video (1969?)

May 22, 2010
By Kevin R. Kosar

Winton M. Blount, the Postmaster General, discusses the problems of the of the U.S. Post Office Department (1969?). The Postal Reorganization Act of 1970 replaced the cabinet-level Post Office Department with the U.S. Postal Service, an independent establishment of the executive branch. Visit msnbc.com for...
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Research Resource: C-Span Archives Go Online

March 21, 2010
By Kevin R. Kosar
Research Resource: C-Span Archives Go Online

The March 16, 2010 New York Times reported: “Researchers, political satirists and partisan mudslingers, take note: C-Span has uploaded virtually every minute of its video archives to the Internet. The archives, at C-SpanVideo.org, cover 23 years of history and five presidential administrations and are sure to provide new fodder for pundits and...
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Tony Wright Lecture on Doing Politics Differently

August 6, 2009
By Kevin R. Kosar
Tony Wright Lecture on Doing Politics Differently

This podcast video is “comprises the entirety of the 2009 annual Political Quarterly lecture of the 4th March; this year given by co-editor Tony Wright MP, entitled “Doing Politics Differently.” Political Quarterly is a U.K. journal that has as its editorial objective to publish articles on issues of public policy, aimed at the most...
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Non-Fiction: Kathryn A. Jacob, King of the Lobby: The Life and Times of Sam Ward, Man-About-Washington in the Gilded Age (2010).

Non-Fiction: Philip Terzian, Architects of Power: Roosevelt, Eisenhower, and the American Century (2010).

Fiction: David Lodge, Thinks (2001)

Non-Fiction: Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy: Dilemmas of the Individual in Public Service, 30th Anniversary Expanded Edition (2010)

Non-Fiction: Christopher Buckley, Losing Mum and Pup: A Memoir (2009)

Non-Fiction: Alice Cooper, Alice Cooper, Golf Monster (2007)

Fiction: John Le Carre A Most Wanted Man (2008)

Fiction: John Le Carre Our Game (1995)

Fiction: John Le Carre The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1963)

Fiction: Peter DeVries Into Your Tent I'll Creep (1971)

Fiction: Peter DeVries Peckham's Marbles (1986)

Fiction: Georges Simenon Three Beds in Manhattan (1964)

Fiction: Kazuo Ishiguro The Remains of the Day (1988)