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Paul Johnson • Creators: From Chaucer and Durer to Picasso and Disney
precocious.
Hillary Jordan • Anonymous Sex
The 1824 election came down to a contest between a member of the English elite, John Quincy Adams, and a member of the Scots-Irish lower class, Andrew Jackson.
George Friedman • The Storm Before the Calm: America's Discord, the Coming Crisis of the 2020s, and the Triumph Beyond
“When [Rousseff] saw people on the streets she got so scared. The response was spend, spend, spend, the numbers all went haywire”, one former presidential adviser told me in 2019.
Richard Lapper • Beef, Bible and bullets: Brazil in the age of Bolsonaro
Why was the EPA willing to move on Flint and not in Washington County? The difference was public versus private water. If there had been forty houses below that leaking pond, and if Stacey, Beth, and Buzz relied on public water, which, unlike their private wells, was subject to regulation, then they’d have a winning criminal case.
Eliza Griswold • Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America
It was Hamilton, they say, who correctly anticipated a future that would
Jon Meacham • Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
Paula
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“Pauline had been writing me, sending cables, making sure I kept her in my sights.