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Hope in Democracy
Manny • 1 card
she was a pistol, utterly unafraid to speak truth, no matter how ugly, to anyone, no matter how powerful.
Sam Wasson • The Big Goodbye: Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood
That she herself was now the older, drier, pouchier-faced woman who once had been, as Pip was now, a mobile destabilizing menace, a kind of rogue warhead …
Jonathan Franzen • Purity: A Novel
In a matter of months, Meriwether and his colleagues had lost nearly $2 billion of personal wealth, marks on their careers they would never erase.
Gregory Zuckerman • The Man Who Solved the Market
foreign powers
Jon Meacham • Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
That year, forty-two senators—about half of whom were Republicans—urged Reagan to press for an international treaty modeled on the ozone agreement.
Jonathan Safran Foer • We Are the Weather
The birth and early years of the Johnson financial empire illuminate very clearly the subtle means by which favoritism and influence are exercised, and their effect on other individuals and on the body politic as a whole.
Robert A. Caro • Means of Ascent: The Years of Lyndon Johnson II
Join forces or have a runoff
Gretchen Anderson • Mastering Collaboration: Make Working Together Less Painful and More Productive
immersing herself in the American legislative process.