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• Where's the progress that we're going to see in Afghanistan? You have to keep public support both on the economy and the…
• I am a historian. With the exception of being a wife and mother, it is who I am. And there is nothing…
• As a historian, what I trust is my ability to take a mass of information and tell a story shaped around it.
• Years of concentration solely on work and individual success meant that in his retirement [Lyndon Johnson] could find no solace in family,…
• The past is not simply the past, but a prism through which the subject filters his own changing self-image.
• Though [Abraham Lincoln] never would travel to Europe, he went with Shakespeare's kings to Merry England; he went with Lord Byron poetry…
• That is what leadership is all about: staking your ground ahead of where opinion is and convincing people, not simply following the…
• Excitement about things became a habit, a part of my personality, and the expectation that I should enjoy new experiences often engendered…
• I liked the thought that the book I was now holding had been held by dozens of others.
• My books are written with a strong chronological spine.
• The turn of the century was the age of the banker, so much so that the leading bankers of the day had…
• While its [Harvard's] undergraduate life was still controlled [in 1908-1912] by a select group of rich and fashionable families whose sons merely…

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