In the late 1950s, as Miles Davis freed the art of jazz from its previously prescribed harmonic structures, and Andy Warhol triumphantly shot art itself down from the high-minded skies of subtle brush strokes to earthly bohemianism, another, less well-known shift was occurring:... More

In 1917, an Austrian-born, New York City-raised Cornell graduate went to work for then-President Woodrow Wilson. His task was to “engineer the consent”—a phrase he would later coin and popularize—of the American public (and, indeed, the president’s own congress) to invade Germany. President Wilson... More