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“With my students, I always have to sell my subject because I know when you're 19, 20 years old, you've got other things on your mind besides American history. What I have to do is make this as compelling as possible.”

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I certainly don't think that the heirs of the American Revolution were a particularly noble class.

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Reagan gave essentially the same speech from the beginning to the end of his political career, which was always, 'The American people are great,…

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Presidents are evaluated not by what they did by the stroke of their own pen; it's what they persuade Congress to do.

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The Founders were anything but demigods to themselves and their contemporaries, who recognized full well that the experiment in self-government had only begun.

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The American political system is based on the president taking the initiative and Congress responding. With President Trump, it's been the opposite.

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The president was not the most important political player in the 19th century. Besides Jefferson at the beginning, Andrew Jackson and Abraham Lincoln, the…

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The Reagan Revolution has had no second act.

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Firefighters and rescue workers are American superheroes.

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