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“Today there is still the same ambiguity toward foreigners and foreign influence. The opening and closing of doors. The sullen refuge in isolation.”
― When China Ruled the Seas: The Treasure Fleet of the Dragon Throne, 1405–1433
― When China Ruled the Seas: The Treasure Fleet of the Dragon Throne, 1405–1433
“As the Senate reporter Allen Drury wrote in his diary post-convention, “Few people can hate one another with more cordial enthusiasm than a bunch of Democrats.”
― The Accidental President: Harry S. Truman and the Four Months That Changed the World—A Fast-Paced Chronicle of Truman’s Tumultuous First Days Amidst World War II
― The Accidental President: Harry S. Truman and the Four Months That Changed the World—A Fast-Paced Chronicle of Truman’s Tumultuous First Days Amidst World War II
“What a beautiful, what a happy land this is! Without kings, without high priests, without idle barons. Here everyone is happy.”
― The Fate of the Day: The War for America, Fort Ticonderoga to Charleston, 1777-1780
― The Fate of the Day: The War for America, Fort Ticonderoga to Charleston, 1777-1780
“The peace proposal boils down to the simple proposition that a burglar should be confirmed in his loot and given complete indemnity, in return for which he offers a conditional promise to cease housebreaking.”
― 1939: The World We Left Behind
― 1939: The World We Left Behind
“FORMER CONGRESSMAN ALBERT Sidney Burleson of Texas had landed in Wilson’s cabinet thanks to his longtime patron, Colonel House. Burleson “has been called the worst postmaster general in American history,” writes the historian G. J. Meyer, “but that is unfair; he introduced parcel post and airmail and improved rural service. It is fair to say, however, that he may have been the worst human being ever to serve as postmaster general.”
― American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy’s Forgotten Crisis
― American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy’s Forgotten Crisis
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