“Certainly, the new day was at hand when President Harding took office. The amazing disparity between the job and the man has the right twenties flavour: it was an era of contradictions. Harding was not intelligent or firm or hard-working… — 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
