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Gerard Gerard said: " A close look at Jackson. Great detail. Intimate. Deeply knowledgeable of the historical context. But a very partisan view. The writers generosity is obvious from the first page. Meacham might have drunk too much of the Kool-aid.
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Leo Strauss
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Leo Strauss, The City and Man

Bernie Sanders
“And let me make the radical statement that I don’t believe that you can say something profound in the 140 characters that make up a tweet.”
Bernie Sanders, Our Revolution: A Future to Believe In

Immanuel Kant
“Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.”
Immanuel Kant, Critique of Practical Reason

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