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The Best and the Brightest: Kennedy-Johnson Administrations (Modern Library)
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Al parecer, Estados Unidos, mejor dicho, el secretario de Estado del Presidente Eisenhower, John Foster Dulles, y su hermano Allen, el jefe de la CIA, habían elegido a Castillo Armas para dirigir la contrarrevolución por no ser tan aristocrático como Ydígoras Fuentes y porque al que tenía cabeza, ideas y prestigio, Córdova Cerna, se le descubrió en
... See moreMario Vargas Llosa • Tiempos recios (Spanish Edition)


September 2008, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert offered to create a Palestinian state in Gaza, almost all of the West Bank, and half of Jerusalem.
Michael B. Oren • Ally: My Journey Across the American-Israeli Divide
“In the terms that mattered to Johnson—which senators got things done in the Senate—Kennedy didn’t measure up,” Kennedy’s aide Ted Sorensen was to say. “So Johnson underestimated him; he, who had done everything, felt that he didn’t have to take him seriously.” When, in January, 1957, another vacancy opened on Foreign Relations, Joe Kennedy importu
... See moreRobert A. Caro • The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson IV
The early twentieth-century philosopher of history Oswald Spengler captured this task when he described the ‘born’ leader as ‘above all a valuer – a valuer of men, situations, and things . . . [with the ability] to do the correct thing without “knowing” it’.[3]
Henry Kissinger • Leadership: Six Studies in World Strategy
Sadat became the first Arab leader to address the Knesset. He laid out five conditions for peace: Israel’s complete return to the 1967 borders, independence for the Palestinians, the right for all to live in peace and security, a commitment not to resort to arms in the future, and the end of belligerency in the Middle East. Sadat’s demands were ste
... See moreDaniel Gordis • Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn
The Augustus was Washington, whose “reflexive restraint in seeking power,” his most recent biographer has suggested, “enabled him to exercise so much of it.” He hosted the 1785 meeting while committing himself to nothing. He allowed two young Agrippas—James Madison and Alexander Hamilton—to lead in public, while making it clear privately where he s
... See moreJohn Lewis Gaddis • On Grand Strategy
No one (except perhaps a tyrant) has a private life that can survive public exposure by hostile directive.