Top 10 Foreign Policy Presidents, Number 1: Dwight Eisenhower
I know, I know, this is no surprise to anyone and half of you are probably accusing me of bias. But there are reasons why Ike is my...
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mbzucker1890
- Dec 7, 2023
- 7 min
Top 10 Foreign Policy Presidents, Number 2: Franklin Roosevelt
Other than Winston Churchill, FDR is likely the single most important person to Allied victory in World War II. That alone earns him one...
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mbzucker1890
- Dec 1, 2023
- 3 min
Top 10 Foreign Policy Presidents, Number 3: George Washington
In the 1790s, the United States faced challenges in foreign relations unsurpassed in gravity until World War II. Britain and Spain still...
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mbzucker1890
- Nov 21, 2023
- 2 min
Top 10 Foreign Policy Presidents, Number 4: James Monroe
I had always respected Monroe and considered him a top 10 President, but my appreciation for his presidency rose exponentially while...
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mbzucker1890
- Nov 16, 2023
- 7 min
Interview with Brian Feinblum about "The Middle Generation"
1. What inspired you to write this book? I have wanted to write biographical fiction since watching Lincoln in theaters in 2012. I wrote...
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mbzucker1890
- Nov 16, 2023
- 3 min
Top 10 Foreign Policy President, Number 5: Harry Truman
Few presidencies have been as uniformly dominated by foreign affairs as Truman’s but that’s expected when assuming office during...
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mbzucker1890
- Nov 16, 2023
- 3 min
Forgotten Elements of FDR’s Foreign Policy Record
I am not an FDR hater. I rank him as one of the five best Presidents and like his foreign policy even more than his domestic. He was an...
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mbzucker1890
- Nov 10, 2023
- 2 min
Top 10 Foreign Policy President, Number 6: Ronald Reagan
Reagan’s fans frame him as the architect of America’s victory in the Cold War. I would give such an accolade to those who designed...
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mbzucker1890
- Nov 2, 2023
- 2 min
Top 10 Foreign Policy Presidents, Number 7: Richard Nixon
Nixon believed the Grand Design, his name for the strategy of playing China and the Soviet Union off of one another, would one day...
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mbzucker1890
- Nov 2, 2023
- 2 min
Rewatching Schindler’s List after 10/7
Few films have grown on me as much as Schindler’s List. Like everyone, I acknowledged its power. It is considered one of the hardest...
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mbzucker1890
- Oct 25, 2023
- 2 min
Top 10 Foreign Policy Presidents, Number 8: Theodore Roosevelt
The history of American foreign policy can be divided between pre- and post-1898, meaning before and after the Spanish-American War....
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mbzucker1890
- Oct 19, 2023
- 2 min
Top 10 Foreign Policy Presidents, Number 9: Thomas Jefferson
Jefferson was America’s philosopher-president. As the main author of the Declaration of Independence and Virginia Statute of Religious...
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mbzucker1890
- Oct 18, 2023
- 1 min
"The Middle Generation" is available for preorder
Exciting news! My fourth novel, "The Middle Generation: A Novel of John Quincy Adams and the Monroe Doctrine" is now available for...
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mbzucker1890
- Oct 18, 2023
- 1 min
President Hamilton - Book Review
Lin Manuel Miranda’s musical inspired a surge of historical fiction novels about Alexander Hamilton over the past decade. I have read...
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mbzucker1890
- Oct 14, 2023
- 2 min
Ike's 133rd Birthday
Dwight Eisenhower was born on this day in Denison, Texas. He was the third of seven sons and his mother said lightning struck the ground...
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mbzucker1890
- Oct 13, 2023
- 2 min
Top 10 Foreign Policy Presidents, Number 10: George H.W. Bush
Given that American foreign policy is the main subject of my first four novels, it’s the natural subject of my first series of blog...
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mbzucker1890
- Oct 4, 2023
- 1 min
Welcome!
This is the first ever post of "Blogging Back Ceaselessly Into the Past!" My plan is to post about history, historical fiction (novels,...
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