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Walter Isaacson • Elon Musk
RUSSELL WAS AN UNCONVENTIONAL GOVERNOR. He conducted gubernatorial business only until about four o’clock in the afternoon, and then, closing the door to his private office, began what, in his biographer’s words, “he considered his real work.” Part of that work was answering mail. Routine correspondence was disposed of by his assistants, but if a
... See moreRobert A. Caro • Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson III
According to further reports, Lindbergh also had simultaneous relationships with Brigitte Hesshaimer’s sister, Marietta, by whom he had two more children, and with a German secretary, identified only as Valeska, with whom he had yet two more children.
Bill Bryson • One Summer
his feisty
Walter Isaacson • Steve Jobs
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Michael Dean • 3 cards
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
But no weather interfered fatally with my walks, or rather my going abroad, for I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beech tree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines;
Henry David Thoreau • Walden (AmazonClassics Edition)
Edmund Wilson,