Sublime

This, which was signed “Oliver,” was far and away the most feeling letter that the adult Aldred had received from his father. It was written in a sprawling but legible hand that showed no sign of age. Oliver Leith’s letters were usually dictated to a machine. Typed up, on a special size of small stationery, by a secretary with whom he had long sinc

The Battle of the Battery Crossing was, moreover, to show them that the means Robert Moses employed were as incompatible with their principles as his ends.

Three thousand five hundred acres just sitting there empty and unused.

Mephistopheles

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The structure might appear flimsy but it was shored up with buttresses of the strongest material available in the world of politics: public opinion. A Governor—even a Governor who hated the man who dwelt within that structure—would pull it down at his own peril.

Whatever revulsion Walker felt about himself could not have been caused by how he behaved at the end. It was the beginning that distressed him, the simple fact that he had allowed himself to be seduced, and he had gone on torturing himself about it for the rest of his life—to such an extent that now, even as his life was ending, he felt driven to m