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"I was captivated by the first half of this book, but things quickly took a turn. The author starts making bold accusations against some of Dallas' most well-known figures, and the story devolves into nothing more than gossip and speculation. It’s a huge letdown after such an engaging start." — Dec 23, 2024 06:46AM
"I was captivated by the first half of this book, but things quickly took a turn. The author starts making bold accusations against some of Dallas' most well-known figures, and the story devolves into nothing more than gossip and speculation. It’s a huge letdown after such an engaging start." — Dec 23, 2024 06:46AM
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First Impressions -For me, the most striking part of "The Vapors" is how personal and local history converges with broader social narratives. Reading this book felt like peeling back layers of a forgotten past, especially meaningful given my kids' co ...more "
‘Why don’t you find something to do for a moment?’ Sid suggested. ‘I need to finish my note to investors before half seven.’ He walked over to his desk where an impressive array of computer screens showed news tickers, graphs, and market
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“If one were to choose a single word to characterize that identity, it would have to be more. For the majority of contemporary Americans, the essence of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness centers on a relentless personal quest to acquire, to consume, to indulge, and to shed whatever constraints might interfere with those endeavors. A bumper sticker, a sardonic motto, and a charge dating from the Age of Woodstock have recast the Jeffersonian trinity in modern vernacular: “Whoever dies with the most toys wins”; “Shop till you drop”; “If it feels good, do it.”
― The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism
― The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism
“The two-year note has become the Treasury market’s gauge of expectations regarding when and how quickly the Fed will raise rates.”
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“Far more accurately than Jimmy Carter, Reagan understood what made Americans tick: They wanted self-gratification, not self-denial. Although always careful to embroider his speeches with inspirational homilies and testimonials to old-fashioned virtues, Reagan mainly indulged American self-indulgence.”
― The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism
― The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism
“So here is that line from the American Declaration of Independence translated into biological terms: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men evolved differently, that they are born with certain mutable characteristics, and that among these are life and the pursuit of pleasure.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“Writing over a century ago, the historian Frederick Jackson Turner made the essential point. “Not the Constitution, but free land and an abundance of natural resources open to a fit people,” he wrote, made American democracy possible.4 A half century later, the historian David Potter discovered a similar symbiosis between affluence and liberty. “A politics of abundance,” he claimed, had created the American way of life, “a politics which smiled both on those who valued abundance as a means to safeguard freedom and those who valued freedom as an aid in securing abundance.”5 William Appleman Williams, another historian, found an even tighter correlation. For Americans, he observed, “abundance was freedom and freedom was abundance.”6”
― The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism
― The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism
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