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Henry Kissinger • Leadership: Six Studies in World Strategy
Senate majority leader Lyndon Johnson sprang to Ike’s defense. McCarthy’s proposal “placed a loaded gun at the President’s head,” said LBJ.6 Johnson immediately recognized the opportunity McCarthy had provided to put the Senate on record supporting Eisenhower and to embarrass the GOP’s Old Guard at the same time. With Senator George’s cooperation,
... See moreJean Edward Smith • Eisenhower in War and Peace
Mann’s attacks shattered against this silent granite image. That year, Stevenson’s eight opponents received a total of 15 percent of the vote. Stevenson received 85 percent, smashing the record he had set two years before. To this day, no gubernatorial candidate in the history of Texas has won nearly so high a percentage in a contested Democratic
... See moreRobert A. Caro • Means of Ascent: The Years of Lyndon Johnson II
... See moreIn 1896, Brooks Adams wrote a book called The Law of Civilization and Decay. Like most late-19th-century commentators, he believed that his country was nearing a watershed in its history. But unless America rallied around a strong leader, the center of world power, which he thought might be about to shift from England to the United States, would
À partir de ce moment, le populisme cesse de ne désigner qu’un mouvement politique confiné à un moment historique précis de l’histoire américaine, et se transforme en un phénomène beaucoup plus général, quasi universel compte tenu de la définition extraordinairement large qu’en donne Shils.
Antoine Chollet • L'antipopulisme ou la nouvelle haine de la démocratie (French Edition)
Both threats strike at the heart of democracy, which, as Alexis de Tocqueville famously highlighted in Democracy in America, depends on deep and diverse, non-market, decentralized social and civil connections to thrive
Audrey Tang • ⿻ 數位 Plurality: The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy
am led to believe that they will soon be left with no other alternative than democratic liberty, or the tyranny of the Caesars. *n
Alexis de Tocqueville • Democracy in America, Volume I and II (Optimized for Kindle)
The time may be already anticipated at which the American Republics will be obliged to introduce the plan of election by an elected body more frequently into their system of representation, or they will incur no small risk of perishing miserably amongst the shoals of democracy.