“Grant had overwhelmingly won the electoral vote, and had garnered the largest popular majority of the century, nearly 56 percent of the… — Ron Chernow Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“As a West Point graduate, Grant had enjoyed an insider’s knowledge of military personnel during the war, but as a Washington outsider,… — Ron Chernow West point Copy Share Image
There is no country in the world where it's as easy to find venture capital in the stock market as the United… — Ron Chernow Country Copy Share Image
“Both Hamilton and Madison were rational men who assumed that people often acted irrationally because of ambition and avarice. Madison wrote, “If… — Ron Chernow Rational Men Copy Share Image
As a bull market continues, almost anything you buy goes up. It makes you feel that investing in stocks is a very… — Ron Chernow Bull market Copy Share Image
“liberty may be endangered by the abuses of liberty as well as by the abuses of power. . . . [T]he former rather than the… — Ron Chernow Freedom Copy Share Image
“Neither he nor anyone else could have predicted that this overweight, rheumatic, vain, pompous, gluttonous inebriate would be so ardent in battle.” — Ron Chernow War Copy Share Image
“By 1872, under Grant’s leadership, the Ku Klux Klan had been smashed in the South. (Its later twentieth-century incarnation had no connection… — Ron Chernow Klan Copy Share Image
“Hamilton has often been extolled as the exponent of a rational foreign policy based on cool calculations of national self-interest. But his… — Ron Chernow Foreign policy Copy Share Image
“Seven months after Grant’s death, Julia received a whopping $200,000 check from Twain and $450,000 in the end—an astonishing sum for book… — Ron Chernow Books Copy Share Image
“While the folks at home embraced him as an improbable hero, Washington was denigrated in England as a reckless young warrior and… — Ron Chernow Washington Copy Share Image
“Grant roomed with Fred Dent, who also singled out Grant as “the clearest headed young man I ever saw . . . He always wanted… — Ron Chernow Grant Copy Share Image
“He applauded a belated decision to evacuate Garfield from the White House in early September and bring him by train to Long… — Ron Chernow Garfield Copy Share Image
“Whoever considers the nature of our government with discernment will see that though obstacles and delays will frequently stand in the way… — Ron Chernow Nature Copy Share Image
“capture the Republican nomination instead of Grant. With Johnson acquitted, everyone knew, Grant would get the party nod. Significantly, the seven Republicans… — Ron Chernow Republican Nomination Copy Share Image
“In a question of veracity between U.S. Grant and Andrew Johnson, between a soldier whose honor is as untarnished as the sun,… — Ron Chernow Friendship Copy Share Image
“Around this time he performed a ceremony that he had contemplated for some time. He asked Fred to compose a letter requesting… — Ron Chernow Family members Copy Share Image
“Predictably, northern military units predominated, but the presence of Confederate soldiers touched onlookers. “It was quite a sight to see the Stonewall… — Ron Chernow Stonewall Brigade Copy Share Image
“The spectacle of soldiers entering a statehouse left northern opinion aghast, leading to vociferous demands for Sheridan’s ouster. Major Republican newspapers in… — Ron Chernow New orleans Copy Share Image
“The panic was blamed on many factors—tight money, Roosevelt’s Gridiron Club speech attacking the “malefactors of great wealth,” and excessive speculation in… — Ron Chernow Customer Copy Share Image
“The feud between Sherman and Stanton exposed a deep fissure that would shortly divide the country over Reconstruction. With the war ending,… — Ron Chernow Status quo Copy Share Image
“The trial wasn’t the finest hour of American justice as the treatment of the prisoners seemed medieval in its barbarism. Almost all… — Ron Chernow Defendants Copy Share Image
“On August 5, he sent Stanton a one-sentence letter: “Public considerations of a high character constrain me to say, that your resignation… — Ron Chernow War Copy Share Image
“In his self-serving view of events, Lee believed that he had performed a prodigious feat, rescuing his overmatched army from danger and… — Ron Chernow General Scott Copy Share Image
“If Madison in the 1780s was a philosopher king, Madison in the 1790s was a formidable practicing politician, and so skillful at… — Ron Chernow Philosophy Copy Share Image
“The fifty-five delegates representing twelve states—the renegade Rhode Island boycotted the convention—scarcely constituted a cross section of America. They were white, educated… — Ron Chernow Delegates Copy Share Image
“Months after leaving office, he wrote to the Bank of the United States and admitted that he did not know his account… — Ron Chernow Bank Copy Share Image
“After the French and Indian War, the British vacillated about whether to swap all of Canada for the island of Guadeloupe; in… — Ron Chernow French toast Copy Share Image
Any bull market covers a multitude of sins, so there may be all sorts of problems with the current system that we… — Ron Chernow Bull market Copy Share Image
In the 1920s, Wall Street was a world that was really dominated by professional speculators and stock pools. These people had a… — Ron Chernow 1920s Copy Share Image
“The power of the new mass media made Grant’s illness a national spectacle, with his doctors offering twice-daily updates on his condition.” — Ron Chernow Journalism Copy Share Image
“Hamilton warned that “a dangerous ambition more often lurks behind the specious mask of zeal for the rights of the people than… — Ron Chernow Politics Copy Share Image
“Henceforth he would project himself into opponents’ minds and comprehend their fears and anxieties instead of blowing them up into all-powerful bugaboos,… — Ron Chernow Courage Copy Share Image
“In other words, Julia still believed in the beneficial effects of tobacco long after her husband had likely died from it. Even… — Ron Chernow Politics Copy Share Image
I just have been so surprised and delighted with what has happened with 'Hamilton.' It really has been one of the most… — Ron Chernow Life Copy Share Image
“Rawlins was soon sidetracked from the war effort, however, by word from his wife, Emily, staying with her family in Goshen, New… — Ron Chernow Marriage Copy Share Image
“Tis only to consult our own hearts to be convinced that nations like individuals revolt at the idea of being guided by… — Ron Chernow Compulsion Copy Share Image
I don't think that a mutual fund that invests exclusively in biotech start-ups or invests exclusively in companies in Thailand offers any… — Ron Chernow Biotech Copy Share Image
“A lifelong Methodist, he had always viewed religious excess with a certain irony, having once told a clutch of ministers that America… — Ron Chernow Methodists Copy Share Image
“Paranoid thinking seems to be a legacy of all revolutions, with purists searching for signs of heresy, and the American experience was… — Ron Chernow American experience Copy Share Image
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