“The legend lives on,” begins Gordon Lightfoot’s enduring 1976 ballad of a 1975 shipwreck, “ The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald .” 50 years later his words sound like a self-fulfilling prophecy. Although the doomed freighter, whose demise the song chronic... See more
Described by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. as “the most dangerous man in America” when he ran as the Republican nominee for president in 1964, 60 years later Barry Goldwater is a figure rarely mentioned in American political discourse, except when ... See more