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Smoke still curled from the wreckage at Pearl Harbor. Across the Pacific, the dead were still being counted—some drowned in burning ships, others incinerated before they could lift a rifle. In Washington, phones rang without rest. Advisers swarmed. The White House throbbed with urgency. Through it all, Franklin Delano Roosevelt sat at his desk, calm … Read more
In the winter of 1906, somewhere north of the Arctic Circle, a young explorer named Vilhjalmur Stefansson sat cross-legged in an igloo, surrounded by Inuit hunters. Outside, the wind cut like a knife, shrieking across the frozen plain. Inside, the flickering light of seal oil lamps cast dancing shadows on the snow-packed walls. The air … Read more
Behind the HeadlinesHe was the Supreme Commander. The five-star general. The man who won a world war and calmed a divided nation. But on a golf course in Colorado, Dwight D. Eisenhower was brought to his knees by a silent threat building for decades. In this episode of The Heart of Power, we examine the … Read more