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Introduced to a party of people who ignore their own chauffeur, he protests: “I have not met this gentleman
Edmund Morris • Edmund Morris - The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt-Random House
his feisty
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The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
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railed as he
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observateurs de la nature les plus disciplinés de l’Histoire, mais ses talents d’observateur s’allient à son imagination au lieu de la réprimer. À l’instar de son
Walter Isaacson • Léonard de Vinci: La biographie (QUANTO) (French Edition)
Edward VII ruled the British Empire with a slightly pudgy cigar-stained hand, assuring his subjects that duty was important but so too was fun. “It doesn’t matter what you do,” he said, “so long as you don’t frighten the horses.”
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King despaired. After nearly three years, his relationship with President Kennedy had run out of room. Although the movement needed federal intervention more than ever, realism told King he could not pressure President Kennedy an inch further. Brooding, he took the young Justice Department lawyer Thelton Henderson privately aside. “I’m concerned ab
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... See moreIn 1896, Brooks Adams wrote a book called The Law of Civilization and Decay. Like most late-19th-century commentators, he believed that his country was nearing a watershed in its history. But unless America rallied around a strong leader, the center of world power, which he thought might be about to shift from England to the United States, would sh