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“It has long been true,” he began, “that the greatest obstacle to the success of democratic socialism in the United States has been the extremism of some of its allies. Nothing could have exemplified this unfortunate fact more clearly than my colleague’s speech tonight. The propensity to damage the progressive cause by calling for the physical exte

Jeffrey Archer • Kane and Abel

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Jean Edward Smith • Eisenhower in War and Peace

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Robert A. Caro • The Power Broker

I use you and George Will as examples of this all the time. Brilliant guys, but this is a street fight. We need to be street fighters. This is going to be determined on social media and getting people out to vote. It’s not going to be debated on the Upper East Side or Upper West Side.

David Brooks • My Unsettling Interview With Steve Bannon

He remains the foremost architect of political liberalism.

Louis N Sarkozy • Napoleon's Library: The Emperor, His Books and Their Influence on the Napoleonic Era

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Vernon Jordan Jr • Vernon Can Read!: A Memoir

Another lever was accountability. As the governor of Arkansas, Bill Clinton was confronted early on with an impossible equation whereby his constituents wanted more public spending, but they hated any politician that raised taxes to finance that spending. Clinton experienced the bitter results: after becoming governor in 1978, he lost his reelectio

Nicolas Colin • Hedge: A Greater Safety Net for the Entrepreneurial Age

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Jim VandeHei, Mike Allen, • Smart Brevity

During its final two weeks, his campaign was almost entirely a campaign ad homines, an exercise in wholesale insinuation and vituperation. Seeing his hopes for elective office vanishing, he spewed venom over his opponents—all his opponents, former friends as well as long-time foes, men who were motivated by principle as well as men motivated by pol