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...Moral relativism is at least as dangerous as moral absolutism. Edmund Burke said “All that is required for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.” I would rephrase: “All that is required for the triumph of evil is that good men do less than everything.” It is essential to realize that human beings who do nothing in the face of evil are not good; they are accomplices and enablers...
...summer, David McCullough's "John Adams" has sat at the top of the best-seller lists. Joseph Ellis' "Founding Brothers" has been on the list for nine months. This fall, Edmund Morris' "Theodore Rex", the second volume of his Theodore Roosevelt biography (the first was his splendid "The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt"), will have a first printing of over 200,000. Doris Kearns Goodwin, having already studied the Kennedys and the Franklin Roosevelts to handsome effect, is hard at work on Abraham Lincoln...
Before the uproar two years ago over Dutch, his quasi-fictional biography of Ronald Reagan, Edmund Morris was the acclaimed author of The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, a wise and supremely readable account of T.R.'s first 42 years that won the Pulitzer Prize in 1980. In a move that could restore his reputation among people who found his account of Reagan a hard one to swallow, Morris is ready now with his long-awaited second volume on the 26th President, Theodore Rex. This one is devoted to Teddy's energetic presidency, which ranged from trustbusting at home to peacemaking...
BOOK The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris "His conservationism still has an impact...
Even a hint of intrigue can be dangerous. Russia's arrest, trial and pardon last year of U.S. businessman Edmund Pope--who denied charges of spying--show just how touchy a host country can be. And there are some professionals--like the clergy or journalists--for whom even modest assistance to the CIA would be considered unethical. So what should you say to the CIA? In most cases, there's little or no business benefit. It's mainly a calculation of how much risk, to yourself and your company, you're willing to take to help the agency...