Analogies Quote by Chuck Klosterman

“By the early 1920s, the America of Jefferson, Lincoln, Whitman, and the young William Jennings Bryan had ceased to exist. It had been replaced…

— Oliver Stone

Few American presidents have been unhappier or lonelier in office than Woodrow Wilson.

— Jill Lepore

“Woodrow Wilson intimate Edward House urged that his boss never first be approached by argument. Instead, the President could be made most receptive by…

— David Pietrusza

“Few would argue against safe-guarding the nation. But in the judgment of at least one of the country's most distinguished presidential scholars, the legal…

— Jane Mayer

“What it came down to was a search not for the most talent, the greatest brilliance, but for the fewest black marks, the fewest…

— David Halberstam

Success in war underpins the claims to greatness of many presidents.

— Anonymous

“The danger of rejecting America’s founding principles is illustrated best in this instance by Wilson himself. As is well documented, Wilson was an open…

— Mark R. Levin

Woodrow Wilson is reported to have told a Princeton colleague, shortly after the 1912 election, "It would be an irony of fate if my…

— James M Strock

After World War II the Republicans - the Wall Street crowd - were very worried about a depression coming back. They hated Franklin Roosevelt…

— Oliver Stone

Woodrow Wilson administration ended in tragedy, with his insistence on governing following his disabling stroke. I suspect President Wilson is often graded on a…

— James M Strock

“Presidents could be fickle and arbitrary. Each new one with wildly different visions and priorities. And when all was said and done, they were…

— Douglas E. Richards

“The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible…

— Max Allan Collins