Jeffrey A. Engel

“Sweeping assertions about the unified beliefs of the nation's 'framers' or 'founders' - or, worse yet, 'founding fathers' - are almost invariably misleading. Most fail to appreciate the generation's diversity and divisiveness out of ignorance. Others intentionally obscure those qualities to bolster some faulty contemporary argument. Reality was more complex. The ranks of those who contributed to the American Revolution and the independent country that followed included merchants and landowners, politicians and preachers, slave owners and those appalled by the practice, each part of a national palette so vast that few residents could reliably claim to have visited its wide expanse or even met someone from each of its thirteen states.”
― Jeffrey A. Engel, Impeachment: An American History

“One person’s inflammatory rhetoric is another person’s poetry,”
― Jeffrey A. Engel, When the World Seemed New: George H.W. Bush and the End of the Cold War