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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
Edward Zitron • CrowdStruck
Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America's Empire
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In 2000, the massive Puerto Rican Day Parade in New York was dedicated to Albizu. Hundreds of thousands marched in it, including Hillary Clinton and Rudy Giuliani.
Daniel Immerwahr • How to Hide an Empire
In the notes he made for a speech in the Constitutional Convention, James Madison wrote of the “real or supposed difference of interests” between “the rich and poor”—“those who will labor under all the hardships of life, and secretly sigh for a more equal distribution of its blessings”—and of the fact that over the ages to come the latter would
... See moreRobert A. Caro • Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson III
Liberty City, Miami, exploded in the spring of 1980,
