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I read one letter everyday and received a lot of benefit. To have these words preserved over millennia is quite astonishing. some of it is pure history and that's fascinating and some of it is speaking to us today. a lot can be applied. I intend to r
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“Far, indeed, in my wishes, very far distant be the day, when our associated and fraternal stripes shall be severed asunder, and when that happy constellation under which we have risen to so much renown, shall be broken up, and be seen sinking, star after star, into obscurity and night!”
― American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House
― American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House
“Life begins on the other side of despair.”
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“In 1888, when Cleveland won the popular vote again by about 90,000 votes, Republican operatives maneuvered the Electoral College to award victory to Benjamin Harrison. (When Harrison, a devout Presbyterian, mused that Providence had given him the victory, his political manager, Mark Hanna, grumbled, “Providence hadn’t a damn thing to do with it. [A] number of men were compelled to approach the penitentiary to make him President.”)2”
― How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America
― How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America
Doug’s 2025 Year in Books
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