That strategy of buy and hold, which is the sound and sensible one for the individual, can have very dangerous and perverse… — Ron Chernow Customer Copy Share Image
It's a shameful thing to admit for someone who writes such long books, but I read so slowly that I almost subvocalize. — Ron Chernow Admit Copy Share Image
Reconstruction is the great black hole that remains to be filled. Even experts on the Civil War don't really understand its full… — Ron Chernow Black hole Copy Share Image
“if a white man kills a black, he cannot be tried for his life for the murder. . . . If a negro strikes a… — Ron Chernow Life Copy Share Image
“shall pass through this world but once. Any good thing therefore that I can do, any kindness I can show to any… — Ron Chernow Good thing Copy Share Image
When the market is just going up, up, and up, we all tend to be blind to the holes in the market.… — Ron Chernow Blind Copy Share Image
I always sympathize with people who complain about the length of my books. It would take me a year to get through… — Ron Chernow Always Copy Share Image
The public has lost faith in the ability of Social Security and Medicare to provide for old age. They've lost faith in… — Ron Chernow Age Copy Share Image
“raiders, the United States wanted Great Britain to foot the bill for the entire war cost after Gettysburg, some $2 billion, the… — Ron Chernow Gettysburg Copy Share Image
“Grant notified the president that he had vacated the office and no longer functioned as war secretary. Faced with this fait accompli,… — Ron Chernow Resigned Copy Share Image
“Now, for reasons both symbolic and practical, the crowd pulled George III down from his pedestal, decapitating him in the process. The… — Ron Chernow George Iii Copy Share Image
“The world of politics was filled with duplicitous people and Grant was poorly equipped to spot them, remaining an easy victim for… — Ron Chernow Politics Copy Share Image
“Hamilton, back by August 13, dove into a debate that passionately engaged him: immigration. He opposed any attempt to restrict membership in… — Ron Chernow Hamilton Copy Share Image
Mutual fund managers are trapped in this rather deadly vicious circle: the more successful they are, the more money flows into their… — Ron Chernow Average Copy Share Image
“His subordinates remembered him as tough but fair-minded. Years later, one of them retained Hamilton as a lawyer, even though he had… — Ron Chernow Hamilton Questioned Copy Share Image
“Grant adopted unusual precautions, returning to the Willard Hotel twice daily for meals and staying indoors at night. When he set eyes… — Ron Chernow John wilkes booth Copy Share Image
“His military triumphs had been neither frequent nor epic in scale. He had lost more battles than he had won, had botched… — Ron Chernow War Copy Share Image
“although he was not formally relieved until early November. Lincoln’s decision to cashier Frémont served as a cautionary tale for Grant, who… — Ron Chernow Lincoln Decision Copy Share Image
“Klan violence was unquestionably the worst outbreak of domestic terrorism in American history and Grant dealt with it aggressively, using all the… — Ron Chernow American history Copy Share Image
“On Easter Sunday, Nash led a mob of several hundred whites, armed with rifles and a small cannon, who opened fire on… — Ron Chernow Easter sunday Copy Share Image
“A southerner by choice, Akerman found it sobering to verify the depth of Klan penetration in the region, which “revealed a perversion… — Ron Chernow Klan Copy Share Image
“On the morning of March 4, in an extraordinary sequence of events, the House approved the bill right before the noon deadline.… — Ron Chernow Chester Arthur Copy Share Image
“At 8:08 a.m. on July 23, 1885, Grant died so gently that nobody was quite certain at first that his spirit had… — Ron Chernow Death Copy Share Image
“It quickly became apparent that a new president could not be named because three of the contested states with warring governments—South Carolina,… — Ron Chernow Contested States Copy Share Image
Once the brokerage house, rather than the bank, became the locus for American savings, that money would find its way into the… — Ron Chernow Broker Copy Share Image
“In the words of Frederick Douglass, “That sturdy old Roman, Benjamin Butler, made the negro a contraband, Abraham Lincoln made him a… — Ron Chernow Abraham lincoln Copy Share Image
By the late 1980s people realized that houses did not always appreciate and that they could fluctuate like any other market commodity. — Ron Chernow 1980s Copy Share Image
In waiting for the glorious moment of that first book contract, writers must have giant reservoirs of patience. Yet they must persevere… — Ron Chernow Book Copy Share Image
“Grant’s fortuitous move to Illinois on the eve of the election had monumental consequences, conveniently situating him in the president’s home state… — Ron Chernow Lincoln Copy Share Image
“What pretty much guaranteed that Johnson would side with white supremacists was his benighted view of black people. No American president has… — Ron Chernow American president Copy Share Image
“It is the child of avarice, the brother of inequity, and father of mischief. It has been the ruin of many worthy… — Ron Chernow Brotherhood Copy Share Image
“He railed against the baleful precedent that would be set if the legislature exiled an entire category of people without hearings or… — Ron Chernow Freedom Copy Share Image
“The most damning and hypocritical critiques of his allegedly aristocratic economic system emanated from the most aristocratic southern slaveholders, who deflected attention… — Ron Chernow Economic system Copy Share Image
“Grant promised to send the Oglala Sioux large herds of sheep and cattle for raising stock and to build schools that would… — Ron Chernow Sioux Copy Share Image
“in the end he required political pull to do so. After years of wandering, Grant had popped up in the right congressional… — Ron Chernow Politics Copy Share Image
“To survive, he continued to hawk firewood on the St. Louis streets and the time thus spent destroyed any chance of prospering… — Ron Chernow Firewood Copy Share Image
“Had Napoleon been thoroughly unselfish, Grant suggested, he would have been the greatest man in history, such was his military genius. When… — Ron Chernow Greatest man Copy Share Image
“When pastor John Heyl Vincent dropped by to transmit his hope that Ulysses “might be preserved from all harm and restored to… — Ron Chernow Hope Copy Share Image
“On September 20, the New York Stock Exchange halted trading for ten days. Grant received emergency pleas for purchases of Treasury bonds… — Ron Chernow Customer Copy Share Image
“Some Washington observers floated scenarios of a constitutional showdown in which Johnson would deploy Grant and the military to silence Congress. Suddenly… — Ron Chernow Grant Political Copy Share Image
