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Klein collapses his lanky, 19-year-old frame into a cushionless sofa bed just to the left of the sign. He's sporting a beard eerily similar to Abraham Lincoln's, with his ears covered by a black knit headband...
Ronald Reagan was the great postwar hedgehog, and candidates ever since have of necessity sought that same aura. George Bush was as poor at managing "the vision thing" as Dole. In this presidential parlor game, George Washington was a hedgehog, John Adams a fox. Abraham Lincoln was a hedgehog, Harry Truman a fox. Franklin D. Roosevelt was a fox who grew into a supreme hedgehog. Richard Nixon lost as a fox in 1960 but won as a hedgehog in 1968. National crises both demand and create hedgehogs, and hedgehogs go down in history as the great Presidents. And in this...
...Mona Abraham...
...ended Elizabethan Age. The 54 scholars who compiled the King James version strove for accuracy and directness and produced, in the process, some of the greatest poetry in the language. That Bible inspired, among so much else, John Wesley's hymns, the Book of Common Prayer, the speeches of Abraham Lincoln and the prose rhythms of Ernest Hemingway. It became the great resonator, the shared reference uniting English-speaking peoples around the world...
...Vanity Fair, uses that magazine's patented "I was there" narrative style to great effect. An acquaintance of Jackie's in the 1980s, Klein offers a reader vivid glimpses of her, as well as poignant descriptions of how she would ask Kennedy allies, such as former Connecticut Governor Abraham Ribicoff and press secretary Pierre Salinger, to talk to John and Caroline about their father...