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Joe Page
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When the Senate moved too slowly for Roosevelt’s taste in ratifying a treaty with Santo Domingo to forestall European intervention, Roosevelt, as he himself described it, “put the agreement into effect, and I continued its execution for two years before the Senate acted; and I would have continued it until the end of my term, if necessary, without
... See moreRobert A. Caro • Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson III
Richard Philpot
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Shortly before the Hammonds’ arrival the building’s East Portico had been the scene of an assassination attempt against President Andrew Jackson. The assailant was named Richard Lawrence, who believed himself to be England’s long-dead King Richard III and claimed that Jackson had interfered with the delivery of payments long owed to him by the
... See moreErik Larson • The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
From the legal-diplomatic standpoint the undertaking was made possible by a treaty signed in Bogotá. Panama was still part of Colombia (or New Granada, as it was then known), and for years the government at Bogotá had been urging Great Britain and France to guarantee New Granada’s sovereignty over the isthmus as well as the neutrality of any future
... See moreDavid McCullough • Brave Companions
As the robber barons of the last century looted the nation’s earth of its wealth—its coal and coke, its oil and ore, its iron, its forests, the very surface of its earth to provide a footing for the rails of their railroads—and used part of that wealth to ensure that the nation’s government would not force them to give more than a pittance of their
... See moreRobert A. Caro • The Path to Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson I
Le philosophe libéral anglais, en tant qu’actionnaire de la Royal African Company, s’intéresse à la traite des esclaves, mais il s’intéresse aussi, en tant que secrétaire (dans les années 1673-1674) du Council of Trade and Plantations, à l’avancée expansionniste des colonies blanches. On a observé très justement que « [l]e fait que tant d’exemples
... See moreBernard Chamayou • Contre-histoire du libéralisme (POCHES ESSAIS t. 416) (French Edition)
Jonathan Simcoe
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