American History

In the 1770s, the rugged settlers of a rough-hewn agrarian society, grossly underrated as mere American colonists, launched a unique and unprecedented revolution against the world’s greatest military power. From these humble beginnings, pockmarked with risk and resistance, grew an uprising of the noblest kind. Their ensuing shout for freedom was no coincidental gasp of the […]

In 1985, as a CIA intelligence officer on rotation to the White House Situation Room, I had a front-row seat to history—or at least as close as one could get without being in the room. The Situation Room, nestled in the West Wing, just down the stairs from the Oval Office, remains the most secure