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Jon Meacham • Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
Marcel Proust’s A La Recherche du Temps Perdu,
Kai Bird • American Prometheus
No one (except perhaps a tyrant) has a private life that can survive public exposure by hostile directive.
Timothy Snyder • On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Maud,
Ken Follett • La Chute des géants
was after President Kennedy’s funeral that Congress passed legislation to provide full Secret Service protection to former presidents.
Jean Edward Smith • Eisenhower in War and Peace
(“It never ceases to amaze me how you can talk and talk and talk to some guy about something you’ve got in mind, and he isn’t very impressed, and then you bring in a beautiful picture of it or, better yet, a scale model with the bridge all in white and the water nice and blue, see, and you can see his eyes light up,” Jack Madigan says);