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Douglas Brinkley
American
Author
Born:
Dec 14
,
1960
Always
First
People
War
World
You
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Ever since Willie Nelson brought rednecks into an alliance with hippies back in the psychedelic '70s, Austin has milked its quirky libertarian spirit for a worldwide bonanza of free publicity.
Douglas Brinkley
Free
Worldwide
Back
Libertarian
Willie
Willie Nelson
Nelson
Spirit
Brought
Alliance
Since
Hippies
Austin
Quirky
Psychedelic
Publicity
Ever
I was only 8 years old on July 20, 1969, when Neil Armstrong, 38-year-old commander of 'Apollo 11,' descended the cramped lunar module Eagle's ladder with hefty backpack and bulky spacesuit to become the first human on the moon.
Douglas Brinkley
Old
Moon
First
Become
Ladder
Backpack
Neil
Only
Armstrong
Commander
Years
July
Human
Apollo
Descended
Eagle
One thing 'not right' on the 50th anniversary of the Selma marches is the sad fact that the Edmund Pettus Bridge hasn't been renamed the John Lewis Bridge.
Douglas Brinkley
Sad
One Thing
John
Fact
Sad Fact
Anniversary
Been
Bridge
Marches
Right
Thing
Lewis
To Armstrong, constantly speaking about 'Apollo 11' only diminished the magic. That's why he worked overtime to avoid notice, living a quiet life in Indian Hill, Ohio.
Douglas Brinkley
Life
Overtime
Quiet Life
Living
Diminished
Indian
Constantly
Magic
About
Only
He
Hill
Armstrong
Quiet
Ohio
Worked
Apollo
Notice
Speaking
Avoid
Why
In Austin, the eco-capital of Texas, residents tend to favor native plants and wildflowers to the sculpted lawns of the Palm Springs variety.
Douglas Brinkley
Plants
Favor
Variety
Tend
Springs
Texas
Austin
Native
Residents
Palm
The world of high-stakes international diplomacy can be rough and tumble, but it's more often than not a procession of suits and summits, protocol sessions and photo ops.
Douglas Brinkley
World
Suits
Diplomacy
Photo
More
Protocol
Than
Often
Tumble
Procession
International
Rough
Animals interest me more than anything else.
Douglas Brinkley
Me
Animals
Else
More
More Than Anything
Than
Anything
Anything Else
Interest
It is a long revisionist road up from the bottom for George W. Bush. He is ranked toward the bottom rung of presidents.
Douglas Brinkley
Long
Presidents
Ranked
Rung
Bottom
He
Road
Toward
George
George W
George W. Bush
Up
Revisionist
Bush
When I was 8 years old, I made my own encyclopedia of American biography - Johnny Appleseed, Jim Bowie, Davy Crockett, Daniel Boone, Charles Lindbergh, my pantheon of favorite heroes. Then I would write my own things and sew them together and try to make my own book.
Douglas Brinkley
Together
Book
Try
Old
Heroes
Made
Own
Jim
Daniel
Sew
Favorite
Would
Charles
My Own
Johnny
Write
Bowie
Make
Years
Encyclopedia
American
Them
Then
Things
Biography
I have a lot of books I want to write.
Douglas Brinkley
Books
Write
Lot
Want
John Kerry doesn't think in terms of black-and-white. He's all gray, and he looks at all sides of the issues. That makes people think he likes to be devil's advocate. Whatever you say, he'll challenge you on.
Douglas Brinkley
You
People
Challenge
Devil
Whatever
Think
Sides
Say
John
John Kerry
He
Terms
Likes
Looks
Makes
Advocate
Issues
Gray
Kerry
John Kerry wants to be the hero in his own drama. He likes King Arthur and the Round Table. He likes the young swashbuckling Churchill, and he loved the early antics of Theodore Roosevelt.
Douglas Brinkley
Hero
King
Own
Young
Drama
Churchill
John
Table
John Kerry
He
Likes
His
Arthur
Loved
Wants
Roosevelt
Theodore
Theodore Roosevelt
Round
Early
Kerry
Demeanor-wise, Reagan was a conservative, but a pragmatic conservative, and he found silver linings in things. He liked to be a mediator. He didn't like to have enemies around him.
Douglas Brinkley
Conservative
Enemies
Silver
He
Like
Liked
Him
Around
Pragmatic
Reagan
Found
Mediator
Things
When we settled our country, the dark forest was considered in some ways evil and something that you needed to plow or, later, bulldoze. We now have a new understanding of the interconnectedness of ecosystems and the need for bird flyways and why all species matter.
Douglas Brinkley
You
Dark
Matter
Bird
Evil
Country
Understanding
Settled
Our
Later
Considered
Ways
Plow
Some
Something
New
Ecosystems
Bulldoze
Forest
Interconnectedness
Now
Species
Why
Need
Needed
John Kerry had a very vivid imagination as a young person. I mean, he actually did go and take his bicycle from Norway to go camp in Sherwood Forest to be around the ghost of Robin Hood.
Douglas Brinkley
Bicycle
Young
Imagination
Ghost
Hood
John
Vivid
John Kerry
Take
Had
He
Robin
Robin Hood
Around
Go
His
Camp
Forest
Very
Person
Did
Norway
Young Person
Mean
Actually
Kerry
Usually, one day in a century rises above the others as an accepted turning point or historic milestone. It becomes the climactic day, or 'the day,' of that century.
Douglas Brinkley
Day
Others
One Day
Above
Rises
Point
Accepted
Becomes
Historic
Century
Turning
Turning Point
Milestone
Walter Cronkite had a golden rule for all wartime reporters: never self-aggrandize.
Douglas Brinkley
Rule
Cronkite
Never
Had
Reporters
Golden
Golden Rule
Wartime
Although Cronkite had once crash landed in a Dutch potato field under enemy fire, he chose instead to focus on celebrating the liberation of the Netherlands at the hands of the Free Dutch.
Douglas Brinkley
Enemy
Focus
Free
Fire
Field
Once
Liberation
Cronkite
Netherlands
Potato
Had
He
Instead
Although
Celebrating
Hands
Dutch
Crash
Landed
Chose
Everybody trusted Cronkite because he reminded them of their favorite uncle or trusted family physician. Being square in the age of the Beatles made Cronkite retro cool.
Douglas Brinkley
Family
Beatles
Age
Made
Physician
Uncle
Everybody
Favorite
Cronkite
He
Reminded
Retro
Because
Trusted
Square
Being
Them
Cool
The superhighway of celebrity and showmanship is filled with debris.
Douglas Brinkley
Debris
Celebrity
Showmanship
Filled
There were three Selma-to-Montgomery marches in March 1965, and Rosa Parks had missed the first one. Parks, whose act of civil disobedience sparked the Montgomery bus boycott in 1955, moved to Detroit two years later for safety reasons.
Douglas Brinkley
Safety
Three
First
Later
Montgomery
Civil
Civil Disobedience
Parks
Detroit
Had
Missed
First One
Boycott
Were
Years
Moved
Bus
Act
Disobedience
Rosa
Rosa Parks
Reasons
Whose
March
Marches
Two
The Edmund Pettus Bridge - which in 2013 was declared a National Historic Landmark - isn't symbolic of the Civil War in a meaningful way. It is, however, the modern-day battlefield where the voting rights movement was born.
Douglas Brinkley
War
Rights
Voting
National
Way
Battlefield
Rights Movement
Civil
Born
Civil War
Voting Rights
However
Historic
Movement
Where
Which
Modern-Day
Meaningful
Meaningful Way
Landmark
Bridge
Symbolic
Her continuity - you know, if you connect Harriet Tubman, who died in 1913, to Rosa Parks, born in 1913, you get this extraordinary spectrum of the African-American experience.
Douglas Brinkley
You
Experience
Extraordinary
Harriet
Born
Parks
Know
Continuity
Get
Died
African-American
Rosa
Rosa Parks
Who
Connect
Her
Spectrum
One of the things I learned in editing 'The Reagan Diaries' is to never say what Reagan would do, because he surprised people.
Douglas Brinkley
People
Editing
Say
One Of The Things
Would
Never
He
Learned
Because
Reagan
Surprised
Diaries
Things
Reagan was a pure liberation, free-and-fair election American.
Douglas Brinkley
Election
Pure
Liberation
Reagan
American
February was always the cruelest month for Hunter S. Thompson. An avid NFL fan, Hunter traditionally embraced the Super Bowl in January as the high-water mark of his year.
Douglas Brinkley
Year
Mark
Thompson
Month
Hunter
Embraced
Super
Super Bowl
February
Cruelest
Bowl
Always
His
Fan
January
Avid
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