When I was 8 years old, I made my own encyclopedia of American biography - Johnny Appleseed, Jim Bowie, Davy Crockett, Daniel Boone, Charles Lindbergh, my pantheon of favorite heroes. Then I would write my own things and sew them… — Douglas Brinkley Copy Share Image
Do we pour $40 billion into grandiose Louisiana engineering projects or do we instead put up no trespassing- signs in the areas below sea… — Douglas Brinkley Copy Share Image
Hurricane Katrina is without question the worst natural disaster in American history,. — Douglas Brinkley Copy Share Image
John Kerry can be absolutely ruthless. I would not want to be on his enemies list when he's ready to go after you. — Douglas Brinkley Copy Share Image
John Kerry wants to be the hero in his own drama. He likes King Arthur and the Round Table. He likes the young swashbuckling… — Douglas Brinkley Copy Share Image
There is nobody that's ever going to fill Ted Kennedy's shoes, and that's a tall order for somebody in the family to try to… — Douglas Brinkley Copy Share Image
“The popular director of OWI was Elmer Davis, an ex-CBS radioman with an admiration for the wire services and Murrow. Working closely with the… — Douglas Brinkley Copy Share Image
If you're a Kennedy and you go to Italy or you go to Argentina, you're treated as royalty. And in the United States, we're… — Douglas Brinkley Copy Share Image
“Conservation,” Pinchot famously wrote, “means the greatest good to the greatest number for the longest time.” — Douglas Brinkley Copy Share Image
I think Ronald Reagan is what happened…The age of Reagan brought conservatism into the mainstream…It also brought us the beginning of the new media-talk… — Douglas Brinkley Copy Share Image
Over the past four decades no reporter has critiqued the American South with such evocative sensitivity and bedrock honesty as Curtis Wilkie. — Douglas Brinkley Copy Share Image
I learned more about history and literature in the used bookstores in DC than in college libraries. — Douglas Brinkley Copy Share Image
It is a long revisionist road up from the bottom for George W. Bush. He is ranked toward the bottom rung of presidents. — Douglas Brinkley Copy Share Image
