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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)
A curb on the practice was enacted in 1917, after President Wilson had added a phrase to the American political lexicon by denouncing “a little group of willful men” (actually eleven senators, including La Follette and his fellow liberal George Norris) who had talked to death Wilson’s proposal to arm American merchantmen against German submarine
... See moreRobert A. Caro • Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson III
In Jefferson’s time, such opposition to government per se—such fierce frontier individualism—might have made Stevenson a real democrat; in the more complicated mid-twentieth century, his reluctance to make use of the powers of his office allowed the continuation of the vacuum in Texas government in which special interest groups—the Texas oilmen,
... See moreRobert A. Caro • Means of Ascent: The Years of Lyndon Johnson II
“The modest and cordial young fellow who passed through New York a few weeks ago with his mother will never be known outside the circle of his mourning friends,” commented John Hay in a touching obituary written for the New York Tribune. “But ’little Tad’ will be remembered as long as any live who bore a personal share in the great movements whose
... See moreDoris Kearns Goodwin • Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
He’d like to occupy a throne room surrounded by experts in flattery; while in a dungeon beneath, unknown to the world, would be a bunch of able slaves doing his work and producing the things that, to the public, would represent the brilliant accomplishment of his mind. He’s a fool, but worse he is a puking baby.
Jean Edward Smith • Eisenhower in War and Peace
Detroit I had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Ford, and it really was a pleasure. He is a man quite capable of views which I think silly to the point of insanity; but he is not the vulgar benevolent boss. It must be admitted that he is a millionaire; but he cannot really be convicted of being a philanthropist. He is not a man who merely wants to run
... See moreG. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton • What I Saw in America
Many of the state’s conservative business leaders had, once the excitement of the campaign had faded, reached the same conclusion as Busby, and realized they had been unjust to Stevenson, and they asked him to run—ample financing assured—for Tom Connally’s Senate seat in 1952; he would, after all, be only sixty-four years old, they pointed out. He
... See moreRobert A. Caro • Means of Ascent: The Years of Lyndon Johnson II
Les Stobbe, Max Lucado, Charlie Wetzel, Les Parrott, Bob Buford,