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The day he was inaugurated, a friend said to the father of Robert Maynard Hutchins: “I was shocked this morning to read that newspaper editorial denouncing your son.” “Yes,” the elder Hutchins replied, “it was severe, but remember that no one ever kicks a dead dog.”
Dale Carnegie • How to Stop Worrying and Start Living (Dale Carnegie Books)
"why the 'haves' come out ahead" and suggests that the resources and experience available to established and on-going groups provide an advantage in litigation.
Gerald N. Rosenberg • The Hollow Hope: Can Courts Bring About Social Change? Second Edition (American Politics and Political Economy Series)
Moreover, with the waning of the Roosevelt influence, conservatives had consolidated their political power in Texas. If Johnson was ever to run for the Senate, he needed their support, and needed to erase from their minds the impression that he was a New Dealer. In these post-war years, Harry Truman submitted to Congress an impressive new liberal a
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Jonathan Haidt, a professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business, is a leading expert in exploring group thought in politics. Haidt, in his book The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion, built on Tetlock’s work, connecting it with the need for diversity. “If you put individuals together in the right way,
... See moreAnnie Duke • Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts
FDR’s practical education continued. He began to appreciate that life in the political arena involved more than bossism and good government. He saw House negotiate with Murphy and recognized how expendable he himself had been. He also recognized that he had to get through the eye of the Democratic needle and be renominated for his Senate seat.
Jean Edward Smith • FDR
The terrible truth was that one way to increase a school’s API score was to encourage the weakest students to drop out—the API measured only active students.
Richard Rumelt • Good Strategy/Bad Strategy: The difference and why it matters
immersing herself in the American legislative process.
Todd Rose • Dark Horse: Achieving Success Through the Pursuit of Fulfillment
WHEN RICHARD RUSSELL congratulated him on his victory over Leland Olds, Johnson replied: “I’m young and impressionable, so I just tried to do what the Old Master, the junior senator from Georgia, taught me to do.” And his note to the master included the most potent of code words: “Cloture is where you find it, sir, and this man Olds was an advocate
... See moreRobert A. Caro • Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson III
Billionaire H. Ross Perot coopted many of Buchanan’s protectionist views and, in the opinion of many Republicans, delivered the presidency to Bill Clinton.