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“My interest in behavioral psychology is part of what drove me to write this book, and appreciating the scholarly foundation that defines the field helped shape this book’s thesis.”
― Life After Power: Seven Presidents and Their Search for Purpose Beyond the White House
― Life After Power: Seven Presidents and Their Search for Purpose Beyond the White House
“It was a small thing, and an enormous one. In”
― This Is Happiness
― This Is Happiness
“remarkably bad at understanding other people’s motivations, even when they know them terribly well. We write all sorts of inaccurate stories in our heads.”
― Someone Else's Shoes
― Someone Else's Shoes
“It was as if my love for Abdul made me see other people’s pain. But it also made me blind to the evil in the world.”
― Honor
― Honor
“He suspected there was “something wrong with her ‘upstairs.’” How else to explain this “unhinged meltdown”2 in which she dared defy him? It could have been Elizabeth confronting McFarland in the fall of 1860. It was Nancy Pelosi versus Donald Trump in October 2019. History favors reruns. Because that pernicious accusation of insanity, deliberately intended to undermine, haunts the annals of history like a spirit photograph, unsettling and at times unseen.”
― The Woman They Could Not Silence
― The Woman They Could Not Silence
Barbara murphy’s 2025 Year in Books
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