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Book cover for Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
“The children were not pleased with the way the story came out,” he admitted in his diary, but he hoped that they would come to “appreciate stories that [do not] come out well, for they are very much like a good deal of life.”
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Robert Morgan
“Each age wants to see its heroes in its own image, in ways that reflect the pieties and sentiments of its day.”
Robert Morgan, Boone: A Biography

Stacy A. Cordery
“She had a cheerful countenance, and that sometimes disguised her habit of looking on the world with what she called “detached malevolence.”
Stacy A. Cordery, Alice: Alice Roosevelt Longworth, from White House Princess to Washington Power Broker

Margaret Mitchell
“It was unreal, grotesquely unreal, that morning skies which dawned so tenderly blue could be profaned with cannon smoke that hung over the town like low thunder clouds, that warm noontides filled with the piercing sweetness of massed honeysuckle and climbing roses could be so fearful, as shells screamed into the streets, bursting like the crack of doom, throwing iron splinters hundreds of yards, blowing people and animals to bits.”
Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

Gene Weingarten
“Life is essentially a fatal disease of indeterminate duration.”
Gene Weingarten, One Day: The Extraordinary Story of an Ordinary 24 Hours in America

Stacy A. Cordery
“An appalling double tragedy overshadowed the joy that should have welcomed Alice Lee Roosevelt's entrance to the world on February 12, 1884. The popular, young New York assemblyman Theodore Roosevelt lost both his beautiful wife, Alice Hathaway Lee, and his beloved mother, Martha Bulloch Roosevelt, on Valentine's Day 1884. He gave the infant her mother's name, a wet nurse, a temporary home, and then relegated her to an afterthought. The family turned in upon itself, lost in grief at the sudden and unexpected deaths, too heartbroken to celebrate Alice's birth. It was the last time anything would eclipse Alice Roosevelt.”
Stacy A. Cordery, Alice: Alice Roosevelt Longworth, from White House Princess to Washington Power Broker

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