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Book cover for American Sphinx (National Book Award Winner): The Character of Thomas Jefferson
When seated, however, he seemed to melt into the upholstery with a kind of contorted grace, one hip high, the other low, shoulders slouched and uneven, his torso folded in several places, part jackknife and part accordion.
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Joseph J. Ellis
“Like the Saxon myth, this way of thinking and talking about politics had deep roots in the Whig tradition in England, dating back to the Puritan dissenters during the English Civil War in the 1640s.”
Joseph J. Ellis, American Sphinx (National Book Award Winner): The Character of Thomas Jefferson

Henry Kissinger
“Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.”
Henry Kissinger

Joseph J. Ellis
“He sang whenever he was walking or riding, sometimes when he was reading. His former slave Isaac reported that one could “hardly see him anywhar outdoors, but that he was a-singin’.” Bacon confirmed that “when he was not talking he was nearly always humming some tune, or singing in a low voice to himself.”
Joseph J. Ellis, American Sphinx (National Book Award Winner): The Character of Thomas Jefferson

Richard Evelyn Byrd
“At times I felt as if I were the last survivor of an Ice Age, striving to hold on with the flimsy tools bequeathed by an easy-going, temperate world. Cold does queer things. At 500 below zero a flashlight dies out in your hand. At - 550 kerosene will freeze, and the flame will dry up on the
wick. At - 60° rubber turns brittle. One day, I remember, the antenna wire snapped in my hands when I tried to bend it to make a new connection. Below - 60° cold will find the last microscopic touch of oil in an instrument and stop it dead. If there is the slightest breeze, you can hear your breath freeze as it floats away, making a sound like that of Chinese firecrackers. As does the morning dew, rime coats every exposed object. And if you work too hard and breathe too deeply, your lungs will sometimes feel as if they were on fire.”
Richard Evelyn Byrd, Alone: The Classic Polar Adventure

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“He also showed himself extremely sensitive to any criticism of his prose.”
Joseph J. Ellis, American Sphinx (National Book Award Winner): The Character of Thomas Jefferson

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