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Author, attorney and environmentalist Maxwell Taylor Kennedy's most recent work, Danger's Hour: The Story of the USS Bunker Hill and the Kamikaze Pilot Who Crippled Her, is a gripping historical account set in the Pacific during World War II (Simon & Schuster, November 2008). www.dangershour.com

Mr. Kennedy is currently an Associate Scholar of the John Carter Brown Library, a center for advanced research in history and the humanities at Brown University. In 2000, Mr. Kennedy managed Senator Edward M. Kennedy's re-election campaign in 2000, and co-founded the Urban Ecology Institute at Boston College. He can be reached by email at max@dangershour.com

Blog Entries by Maxwell Kennedy

Development That Works: OPIC Earns Money for the Treasury While Funding Development Throughout the World

6 Comments | Posted January 13, 2012 | 15:27:53 (EST)

The freedom to earn a profit on hard work and shrewd investment can be as important as the freedom of speech. Both are fundamental to the pursuit of happiness, that most particularly American of universal rights. And without experience of both, America sometimes makes little sense to people struggling to...

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I'm for Khazei

Posted October 8, 2009 | 12:10:26 (EST)

I never asked Senator Kennedy whom he would like to serve in his seat when he was gone. For most of my life, I, like so many others, thought he would always be there. It seemed difficult to imagine life without him.

We have had a glimpse now of what...

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Fanaticism and Contempt

Posted January 8, 2009 | 17:54:12 (EST)

Once the master of revolutionary war, Israel cannot seem to grasp the essential nature of asymmetrical warfare.

In the eyes of so many, the detestable Hamas militants firing the rockets are the brave Davids struggling to protect their families and villages from the overwhelming force of the American-backed Israeli...

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Winning an Asymmetrical War

Posted December 4, 2008 | 17:32:00 (EST)

Last week a handful of young men captured the attention of the world. Media from around the globe were diverted to Mumbai. The western world seemed to stop, frozen at the spectacle of a group of men who were willing to commit murder and die in the process.

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