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The riddle for a biographer is to explain how this Hudson River aristocrat, a son of privilege who never depended on a paycheck, became the champion of the common man.
Jean Edward Smith • FDR
Birdwell saw now what Latimer and Jones had seen years before: “He signed every letter,” no matter how brief, or how unimportant the subject matter. “No one rubber-stamped his name on a letter. He looked at and read every letter. If we wrote something that didn’t sound right, why, it was rewritten.” Success seemed only to have increased his tension
... See moreRobert A. Caro • The Path to Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson I
Although Truman had won on the basis of his “Fair Deal” program, that program’s fate would still be controlled by anti–Fair Deal southerners. And in the unlikely event that Truman’s proposals somehow emerged from committee, there was still the filibuster in the Senate. What was the legislation that had been defeated in the Senate in 1948? Legislati
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For him, that voice had a distinctive set of qualities: simple, declarative, clean.
Walter Isaacson • Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography
Timothy Prestero’s “Better by Design.”
Steven Johnson • Where Good Ideas Come From
foreign powers
Jon Meacham • Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
John Henry Newman,
Joseph Bottum • An Anxious Age: The Post-Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of America
Unless there is an astonishing and almost miraculous change in policies, the successful investor or entrepreneur in the Information Age will pay a lifetime penalty of tens of millions, hundreds of millions, or even billions of dollars to reside in the countries with fiscal policies like those that have enjoyed the highest living standards during th
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