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2,649 words, approx. 9 pages
 James Vincent Forrestal (February 15, 1892 – May 22, 1949) was a Secretary of the Navy and the first United States Secretary of Defense. Forrestal's death resulted from a fall out of a Bethesda Naval Hospital window which has led to speculation...




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Driven Patriot: The Life and Times of James Forrestal.
06/01/1992: 1,305 words, approx. 4 pages Townsend Hoopes, Douglas Brinkley. Knopf, $30. Townsend Hoopes tells us in the preface of this book that as a "recent Marine lieutenant who aspired to meaningful public service," he found in James Vincent Forrestal "the model hero." Hoopes, who became a "young-man-of-all-works" for...
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 Canadian Journal of History
Driven Patriot: The Life and Times of James Forrestal. (book reviews)
04/01/1993: 772 words, approx. 3 pages James Forrestal lived the American dream as both triumph and tragedy. Born in 1892, a small-town Irish-Catholic boy eager for success, be made his way from Princeton eating clubs to Wall Street wealth and Manhattan glamour, and then in the 1940s to administrative...
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 The New York Observer
Through a Glass, Darkly: Exorcising the Pentagon
5/21/2006: 1,555 words, approx. 5 pages James Carroll claims to have left the priesthood in the early 1970’s. House of War suggests otherwise. This history of the Pentagon is Mr. Carroll’s Stations of the Cross, performed in penance for the sins of America’s military-industrial complex. House of War is not about...
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 The New York Observer
Through a Glass, Darkly: Exorcising the Pentagon
5/21/2006: 1,552 words, approx. 5 pages James Carroll claims to have left the priesthood in the early 1970’s. House of War suggests otherwise. This history of the Pentagon is Mr. Carroll’s Stations of the Cross, performed in penance for the sins of America’s military-industrial complex. House of War is not...


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