Compare the world 20 years after the 9/11 attacks to the world two decades after Pearl Harbor. World War Two was a vivid presence in popular culture and national memory in 1961, but America in the first year of John F. Kennedy’s administration was in no sense living in the shadow of Japan’s attack.
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