Too Much History

George W. Bush faces the challenges of FDR, JFK, and Truman all at once.

BY Noemie Emery

June 2, 2003, Vol. 8, No. 37

ALL THROUGH the Clinton administration and into the 2000 election, some said we had run out of history. It had been tapped out, like an overused resource. It had run dry, like a well. Then came September 11, and history came flooding back with a vengeance, swamping us all in a torrent of crisis and incident. We have so much history now that we have nowhere to put it. We have a history glut. Elected in peace, George W.

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