“The isolationists kept up a loud chorus of denunciation and formed the America First Committee to make sure that the ‘mistake’ of 1917 was not repeated. America First had an amazing range of supporters, from proto-Nazis to socialists – even… — Hugh Brogan Copy Share Image
“The importance of capital in the early Industrial Revolution was so great and so obvious everywhere that it gave rise to several new social… — Hugh Brogan Copy Share Image
“Certainly, the new day was at hand when President Harding took office. The amazing disparity between the job and the man has the right… — Hugh Brogan Copy Share Image
“In an election speech in 1936, he said: I have seen blood running from the wounded. I have seen men coughing out their gassed… — Hugh Brogan Copy Share Image
“Reverend John Allen of Massachusetts took up the cry: Blush ye pretended votaries for freedom! ye trifling patriots!… for while you are fasting, praying,… — Hugh Brogan Copy Share Image
“The most successful politician is he who says what everybody is thinking most often and in the loudest voice. Theodore Roosevelt” — Hugh Brogan Copy Share Image
“The day was not far off when, as the saying goes, if Wall Street sneezed, the rest of the world would catch a cold.… — Hugh Brogan Copy Share Image
“A library of books like Madison Grant’s The Passing of the Great Race (1916) warned the Americans that they could not safely continue to… — Hugh Brogan Copy Share Image
“The new Republican party thought that it did, and in its 1856 platform denounced slavery and polygamy together as ‘twin relics of barbarism’. Or” — Hugh Brogan Copy Share Image
“a confirmation of two of history’s more dismal lessons: that grand alliances rarely survive the shock of victory, and that great powers usually behave… — Hugh Brogan Copy Share Image
“Hating your neighbour is almost as secure a psychological prop as loving him, especially if he differs from you in looks, language or habits.” — Hugh Brogan Copy Share Image
“The Republicans, however, refused to let power slip from their hands so easily. The carpetbag governments in Louisiana and South Carolina announced that Rutherford… — Hugh Brogan Copy Share Image
“The Congressmen and Senators themselves had seen to it that bribery was the only way of doing business with them. Frequently they would introduce… — Hugh Brogan Copy Share Image
“In the South it was feared that immigrants did not have the correct racial attitudes: five Italians were lynched, in Tallulah, Louisiana, for associating… — Hugh Brogan Copy Share Image
“A common canard of the time showed Ike viewing the Presidency simply as an agreeable place in which to pass the early years of… — Hugh Brogan Copy Share Image
