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Walker soon became disgusted by Frémont’s self-promoting histrionics and rank cowardice in the field – a combination he found particularly loathsome. They
Richard Grant • Ghost Riders: Travels with American Nomads

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Speaking in Kansas City of the need for education, for roads and highways, and for extending healthcare, Walker offered a platform for white working-class voters while enumerating the dangers foreign immigration posed to the destiny of his listeners. “What good will it do, I ask you, to train and develop the minds and hearts and bodies of our boys
... See moreJon Meacham • The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels
The $15,000,000 bond issue, he said, must specifically authorize the Legislature “to provide for permanent improvements as well as the acquisition of land…for large facilities which make a park accessible and attractive to people.” “Conservation”—the previous park ideal—had to be combined with “recreation,” he said. Furthermore, he said, “permanent
... See moreRobert A. Caro • The Power Broker
It passed through that intersection of law, markets, and technology that consistently remained the course of my career.
J. Christopher Giancarlo, Cameron Winklevoss, • CryptoDad: The Fight for the Future of Money
The clear impression is that prosecutors had trawled through years of tariff filings searching for possible Standard violations, however technical. In short, it looks like harassment—an impression that is reinforced by the government’s request on retrial, after the case was thrown out on appeal, to present a separate evidential argument for each of
... See moreCharles R. Morris • The Tycoons: How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy
Stephens was the president of the railroad, which was a wholly American-owned stock company with its main office in the old Tontine Building on Wall Street. The capitalization was a million dollars.