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A little-remembered magazine interview from 1987 may hold clues about what Trump and Putin are ultimately up to. What was on Trump’s mind back then — besides…
Henry Agard Wallace (1888-1965) left his mark on what he memorably proclaimed the Century of the Common Man as plant geneticist, entrepreneur, spiritualist, author, magazine editor, transformative secretary of agriculture under Franklin Roosevelt, and Roosevelt's second vice president. To his admirers Wallace was a conviction politician who denounced segregation in front of Southern audiences and criticized Cold War profiteers long before Dwight Eisenhower alerted us to the military-industrial complex. Detractors mocked Wallace as a religious crank, bureaucratic bungler, and apologist for Joseph Stalin.
In "The World That Wasn’t: Henry Wallace and the Fate of The American Century" (Avid Reader Press), Benn Steil imagines if Wallace, not Truman, had succeeded FDR.
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