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It’s been a week of upheaval in Hawthorne, the South Bay suburb where the Beach Boys got their start in the 1960s and came to epitomize the postwar beach culture of Southern California.

Global postwar decolonization and the struggle for equality proved to be lengthy and sometimes extremely bloody processes.

There’s certainly room for historical cynicism about postwar Germany and the role of Merz’s center-right party, the Christian Democratic Union, in laundering the reputations of many former Nazis or collaborators.

Art, commerce, passion and personalities meet in Boris Kachka’s chronicle of the publisher that set the ‘intellectual tone of postwar America.’

He has deployed his special envoy to the Middle East to secure the return of hostages taken by Hamas but has yet to invest in any postwar plan for the beleaguered enclave.