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H. W. Brands
H. W. Brands
American Historian
Born: Aug 7, 1953
American History People Political Think You
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Once you become president, you don't even have to stop for red lights. And if it looks like traffic's too bad, you just take a helicopter. H. W. Brands
You Become Too President Once Bad Take Red Lights Like Looks Traffic Just Stop Helicopter Even
Abraham Lincoln spoke out against the Mexican War. But once Americans were under fire, people who were on the fence felt obliged to support it. H. W. Brands
War People Fire Once Out Abraham Abraham Lincoln Obliged Support Spoke Felt Lincoln Fence Were Mexican American Against Who
George W. Bush has shown himself to be a decent guy, not exploiting his former office to make top dollars giving speeches. H. W. Brands
Giving Top Guy Make Himself George Dollars His George W George W. Bush Office Decent Former Bush Exploiting Shown Speeches
Harry Truman's decision to fire Douglas MacArthur at the height of the Korean War in April 1951 shocked the American political system and astonished the world. Much of the world didn't realize the president had the power to fire a five-star general; much of America didn't realize Truman had the nerve. H. W. Brands
War World Political Decision Fire Power President Astonished Harry April System Nerve General Had Korean Korean War Truman Shocked America American Political System Height Realize Much Douglas
I certainly don't think that the heirs of the American Revolution were a particularly noble class. H. W. Brands
Class Revolution Think Noble Particularly Were American Heirs American Revolution Certainly
I've probably written some books - I know I've written some books that were more interesting to me than to a large audience, but that was mostly when I was first getting started in academia and writing for a narrow audience. H. W. Brands
Me Writing First Books Some More Written Academia Know Mostly Audience Narrow Were Than Getting Getting Started Interesting Large Large Audience Started
Reagan's enduring value as a conservative icon stems from his resolute preaching of the conservative gospel, in words that still warm the hearts of the most zealous conservatives. Yet Reagan's value as a conservative model must begin with recognition of his flexibility in the pursuit of his conservative goals. H. W. Brands
Words Conservative Goals Value Preaching Conservatives Recognition Must Pursuit Stems Most Gospel Reagan Still His Begin Model Hearts Enduring Icon Warm Flexibility Zealous Resolute
Although this should not be so, historians reconsider presidencies based on how the presidents conduct themselves after leaving office. H. W. Brands
Presidents Reconsider Although How Leaving Historians Conduct Office After Themselves Should Based
Americans knock themselves out, especially since 9/11, praising the military. H. W. Brands
Military Out Knock Since Praising American Themselves
Everything that happens today is like something in the past, but it's also unlike things in the past. We never know until an event happens if it's the similarities or differences that matter more. H. W. Brands
Today Matter Past Differences Unlike Everything Similarities Something More Never Like Know Until Also In The Past Happens Event Things
If it's a good story, it's a good story, and it draws readers in. H. W. Brands
Good Draws Good Story Readers Story
The more of my readers I encounter who say, often apologetically, that they are actually listeners, the more I write for the ear rather than the eye. Small things like identifying speakers in dialogue rather than relying on paragraphing to mark the shifts. H. W. Brands
Small Things Mark Say Eye Rather More Small Relying Write Like Identifying Readers Dialogue Encounter Shifts Than Often Listeners Speakers Who Actually Things Ear
I'm the farthest thing from a bibliophile. I purge my collection regularly: If I haven't read a book in a couple of years, I try to give it to someone who will. H. W. Brands
Book Try Will Collection Purge Someone Give Couple Read Years Regularly Who Farthest Thing
You can always find people, ordinary people, who will support your particular view, so it becomes a politics of personality, especially at the presidential level. People often go for somebody that they like or somebody that they can identify with. H. W. Brands
Politics You People Personality Will Somebody Presidential Find Support Particular Like Identify Becomes Always Go Often Ordinary Ordinary People View Your Who Level
To me, the puzzle of Ronald Reagan is how a comparatively ordinary man, someone with not extraordinary talent, accomplished such extraordinary results. At the age of 50, no one expected that this was going to be the guy who would become, at least in my interpretation, one of the two most important presidents of the 20th century. H. W. Brands
Me Man Age Important Become Interpretation Extraordinary Presidents Would Someone Guy Results No-One Puzzle Talent Most How Reagan Least Accomplished Expected Going Ordinary Ordinary Man Ronald Reagan Century Who Comparatively Two
Most presidents have not considered 100 days a significant milepost. H. W. Brands
Considered Presidents Significant Days Most
Interest in the Founders has risen and fallen over time, as has admiration for them and their accomplishments. H. W. Brands
Time Admiration Risen Over Fallen Accomplishments Interest Them Founders
In revering the Founders, we undervalue ourselves and sabotage our own efforts to make improvements - necessary improvements - in the republican experiment they began. H. W. Brands
Own Experiment Our Ourselves Sabotage Make Undervalue Began Efforts Republican Founders Necessary
The Founders were anything but demigods to themselves and their contemporaries, who recognized full well that the experiment in self-government had only begun. H. W. Brands
Experiment Recognized Only Had Contemporaries Well Self-Government Were Begun Anything Themselves Full Who Founders
Previous candidates who get elected are almost always sobered by the office and the responsibility they take on. Donald Trump shows no evidence of that. He's the same Trump that he was when he was host of his reality TV show. He's the same Trump that he was when he was a candidate. H. W. Brands
Reality Responsibility Evidence TV TV Show Previous Take Host He Almost Always His Trump Office Get Donald Donald Trump Same Candidate Candidates Reality TV Elected Show Who Shows
People who teach American history survey classes have a lot of ground to cover and tend to focus on landmarks. You get through the Civil War and Reconstruction, and you have to get to the beginning of the 20th century fast. It's pretty easy to go lightly on the Gilded Age. H. W. Brands
War History You Age People Focus Beginning Easy Gilded Civil Reconstruction Classes Pretty Civil War Tend Through Lightly Go Cover Lot Survey Get American American History Century Landmarks Teach Ground Who Fast
It's not an exaggeration to say that Texas gets a lot more out of being part of the United States than the United States gets out of having Texas as one of the states. H. W. Brands
Exaggeration Say States Out Having More Part Lot Texas Than Gets Being United United States
In the early 19th to the early 20th century, people had a lot of things wrong with them. Doctors didn't know how to fix them, and so they lived with them. H. W. Brands
People Doctors Had Wrong Know How Lot Fix Them Century Lived Things Early
The candidate who promises the most has the best chance of winning. H. W. Brands
Best Promises Winning Most Candidate Who Chance
Theodore Roosevelt, when he was out of office, he would do things to draw attention. But when you are president, you don't need to shout. When you are in office, you are the story. H. W. Brands
You President Draw Out Would He Attention Office Story Roosevelt Theodore Theodore Roosevelt Shout Things Need
On style points alone, Donald Trump makes GWB look magnificently presidential. H. W. Brands
Alone Style Presidential Points Look Makes Trump Donald Donald Trump
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