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“The housekeeper was one expression of her passive-aggressive behavior in a marriage of remarkable and labyrinthine complexity.”

Jean Edward Smith • FDR

Kay’s pedigree made her invaluable to her American bosses, who were painfully unfamiliar with English social customs.

Jean Edward Smith • Eisenhower in War and Peace

In Search of Excellence.

Walt Bogdanich • When McKinsey Comes to Town: The Hidden Influence of the World's Most Powerful Consulting Firm

Club du Lys in Paris.

Elizabeth Wilson • Love Game: A History of Tennis, from Victorian Pastime to Global Phenomenon

In the case of Brennan’s pregnancy, he simply shut it out of his mind. When confronted, he would deny that he knew he was the father, even though he admitted that he had been sleeping with her. “I wasn’t sure it was my kid, because I was pretty sure I wasn’t the only one she was sleeping with,” he told me later.

Walter Isaacson • Steve Jobs

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Thomas Pynchon • Bleeding Edge

Brown & Root might be breaking the law if it gave money to the Johnson campaign, but Brown did not let the law deter him from backing his candidate to the hilt. He simply took precautions to conceal what he was doing. These precautions had to be more extensive than the ones he had taken the previous year, for the scale of his contributions was

Robert A. Caro • The Path to Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson I

Was telling the dust-watcher how C. Nunn Jr. passed up multitudes of come-hitherish cheerleaders and oriental princesses to return to Minogue and enter into serious commitment with his childhood sweetheart, the illegally buxom and tall Glory Joy duBoise, closest thing to femininity and pulchritude that to date exists in Minogue Oklahoma, eyes like