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History of a Calamity

Michael Goldfarb

History of a Calamity: How the US Went from Victory in World War 2 to Donald Trump in a Single Lifetime ... Mine

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JANUARY 20, 2017: TRUMP INAUGURATION DAY

On Inauguration Day 2017 I was in Washington DC recording a BBC Radio 4 documentary covering Trump’s first 100 days in office and filing the report below for the Observer newspaper in Britain. This was a First Rough Draft of History. Eight...

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CHAPTER 23: 1998, EL PASO

Towards the end of my journey along the border, in the town of Mesilla New Mexico, a teacher gave me a history lesson: Exactly 400 years ago in the spring of 1598, the Spanish explorer Don Juan de Oñate led a party of settlers from Mexico o...

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CHAPTER 22: 1998, NOGALES

In Nogales, Arizona, the border is pink. A wall of cinderblock and metal painted pink running between two voluptuously rounded hills that define the town. In the flat canyon between the hills, there’s room in the wall for a pair of railroad...

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CHAPTER 21: 1998, SONORAN DESERT

At dawn, the desert of Sonora reveals itself. Once the sun is fully risen, its brightness washes out the details of the land, but the day’s first light slicing at an acute angle from the horizon, shows the landscape in all its complexity....

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CHAPTER TWENTY: 1998, YUMA ARIZONA

Throughout the 1990s the BBC World Service sent me back to parts of America that were rarely reported on to write a series of essays, similar to Alistair Cooke’s Letters from America. The last of these trips took place in March 1998 when I...

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