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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
President Obama ran a campaign in 2008 that was entirely expected from a non-incumbent. You promise, and you imply that if you elect me, everything good is going to happen. H. W. Brands
Good Me You President President Obama Ran Everything Promise Obama Entirely Imply Campaign Expected Going Happen Elect
I cannot think of a president or administration that has taken seriously the 100 days. H. W. Brands
Seriously Think President Administration Taken Days Cannot
In modern times, the American military has become more bureaucratised. H. W. Brands
Become Military More Times American Modern Modern Times American Military
In some ways, I would be absolutely fascinated if Trump gets elected. H. W. Brands
Ways Would Would-Be Some Absolutely Trump Gets Elected Fascinated
Every work of history is a combination of argument and narrative. The longer I write, the more I emphasize the narrative, the story, and the less attention I give to the argument. Arguments come and go. H. W. Brands
Work History Argument Every Give More Write Attention Emphasize Combination Longer Come Come And Go Narrative Go Story Less
I'm more inclined to say the presidency has changed Trump rather than Trump changed the presidency. He has moderated or reversed himself on most of the positions he took as a candidate. Reality has set in, as it does with every new president. H. W. Brands
Reality Every Positions Changed Presidency President Took Say Rather More He New Most Himself Does Reversed Trump Than Candidate Inclined Set
By the early 1960s, there was a moral consensus on what needed to be done on civil rights. H. W. Brands
Rights Moral Civil Civil Rights Done Early Consensus Needed
The president is the one person who potentially could be the unifying figure in the country. And if the president or a presidential candidate basically writes off 40 states, then how in the world do the people in those 40 states feel like they have a stake in that person or that election? H. W. Brands
People World Election Country President Presidential States Those Potentially Could Writes Feel Like How Off Person Candidate Stake Then Unifying Figure Who Basically
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