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Extraordinary Patriots of the United States of America: Colonial Times to Pre-Civil War
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Jean Edward Smith • FDR
Hobson’s choice.
Jean Edward Smith • Eisenhower in War and Peace
This was the moment when the breach between Britain and the colonies opened up.
George Friedman • The Storm Before the Calm: America's Discord, the Coming Crisis of the 2020s, and the Triumph Beyond
Long stormed into the midst of the Mississippi delegation. He threatened. He cajoled. He bullied. He shook his fist in Governor Conner’s face: “If you break the unit rule, you sonofabitch, I’ll go into Mississippi and break you.”
Jean Edward Smith • FDR
In many ways, the amendments to the authority acts had given him, in his fields of operation, more power than he would have possessed as chief executive of state or city.
Robert A. Caro • The Power Broker
David Stasavage calls “early democracy,” resembling the councils and assemblies of hereditary chiefdoms.