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The Little Flower mastered even the city’s most unmasterable element: its government.
Robert A. Caro • The Power Broker
he is one of the most important political thinkers on earth today.
Michael Malice • The New Right: A Journey to the Fringe of American Politics
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Jean Edward Smith • Eisenhower in War and Peace
... See moreRussell was for twenty-six years either Chairman or dominant member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, which oversaw the battle readiness of the nation’s far-flung legions and armadas. As senators of Rome had insisted that, regardless of the cost, the legions must be kept at full complement because the peace and stability of the known world—th
Would dreams—dreams of real size and significance and scope—the accomplishment his mother had taught him was so important, ever be realized by the methods of the men in whose ranks he had once marched, the reformers and idealists? He asked the question of himself and he answered it himself. No. The method he had adopted to turn his Long Island drea
... See moreRobert A. Caro • The Power Broker
Beyond this, the adage that the opposition’s duty was to oppose was not Rayburn’s adage. He didn’t want to oppose simply for the sake of opposing. “Any jackass can kick a barn down,” he said. “But it takes a good carpenter to build one.” With Richard Russell, the personal paled before the patriotic. Russell, who had studied the generals of Rome, co
... See moreRobert A. Caro • Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson III
championed the broad-constructionist perspective, which radically changed Constitutional interpretation.
R. C. Sproul • Knowing Scripture
He understood that order and responsibility were what the country needed. And that this far outweighed his own concerns.