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Her public reputation, like Demeter’s daughter, crawls back up from the underworld.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
the Tea Party. If they became organized, they would become an irresistible force in the party. Inevitably, someone would come along to organize them, but it had to be someone outside the party, someone not trapped in the web of relationships that accepted the basic economic and social model.
George Friedman • The Storm Before the Calm: America's Discord, the Coming Crisis of the 2020s, and the Triumph Beyond
The task of reconciling banking reform with the party’s states’-rights traditions fell, improbably, to a southern congressman—the Virginian Carter Glass.
Roger Lowenstein • America's Bank
Jamelle Bouie • Opinion | The Real Reason Trump and Vance Hate Being Called ‘Weird’
It was not the first time that motherhood provided the female version of civic virtue.
Elaine Tyler May • Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era
Cathlyn Wilkerson: Portrait of a Young Revolutionary (Published 1970)
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Tocqueville found that the most striking thing about American democracy, the central fact from which all his other observations sprang, was “the equality of conditions.” He didn’t mean equal results, which, given the diversity of human talents and pursuits, could only be imposed by a state that made some more equal than others. He meant equal
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