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... 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 sh
he had offended the daily critics in the book by referring to the New York crowd as “angleworms in a bottle” and to critics as the lice that crawl on literature;
A. Scott Berg • Max Perkins: Editor of Genius
savage than the Americans?
Julie Otsuka • The Buddha in the Attic
For eight years under Woodrow Wilson he had been the number two man in the Navy Department.
Jean Edward Smith • FDR
Their creed was summed up in two quotes: Commodore Vanderbilt’s “Law? What do I care for law? Hain’t I got the power?” and J. P. Morgan’s “I owe the public nothing.”
Robert A. Caro • The Power Broker
Varian Fry was a hero, but he was also a maverick who flew in the face of American policy.
Dara Horn • People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
Ernest Shackleton, a member of Wooster Lodge 79 and Siloam Lodge 32 in Connecticut, was a pioneer Antarctic explorer. During an expedition in January, 1915, Shackleton's ship "Endurance" became locked in an ice floe. Eventually the pressure of the ice crushed the ship's hull, rendering it useless except for shelter and provisions. Shackle
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