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W.E.B. Du Bois
1961 - Accra
In Accra, an intellectual who spent a lifetime fighting for Black America explains why he left the country he tried to save.
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John F. Kennedy
1963 - White House
Pain management, speed, and mythmaking around youthful command.
In the White House, between pain and intelligence briefings, a president writes what the cameras were never allowed to see.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
1968 - Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
Order, fatigue, and the afterlife of command in a disordered republic.
On his farm in Gettysburg, a general who commanded the liberation of Europe reflects on the wars that followed.
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Charles de Gaulle
1969 - Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises
Rejection, national embodiment, and the politics of post-power simplification.
At Colombey, having walked away from power a second time, a general asks whether France understood what he tried to build.
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Accra
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White House, Washington, D.C.
Alive in this timeline around 1963 / story span 1865-1963
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W.E.B. Du Bois
1961 - Accra
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In Accra, an intellectual who spent a lifetime fighting for Black America explains why he left the country he tried to save.
- 1963