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The battle had proven that the powers he had obtained as head of a new part-private, part-public entity, a “body corporate and politic,” were vast enough so that in his spheres of activity he, not the formal democratic institutions of New York, would henceforth shape New York’s destiny.
Robert A. Caro • The Power Broker
Chasing Shadows: The Nixon Tapes, the Chennault Affair, and the Origins of Watergate (Miller Center Studies on the Presidency)
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Opinion | There Is No Going Back
How Democracies Die: The International Bestseller: What History Reveals About Our Future
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For a second secretary, Washington retained David Humphreys, with his agile pen. Now seasoned by diplomatic experience in Paris with Jefferson, Humphreys advised Washington on questions of etiquette and was anointed chamberlain, or master of ceremonies, for the administration. The third team member was Major William Jackson, an orphan from South
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Lester Hunt, who later became the inspiration for one of the main characters in Allen Drury’s classic political novel Advise and Consent.
Susan Glasser • The Man Who Ran Washington: The Life and Times of James A. Baker III
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