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...Lacked leaders? Patton's leaders in 1943 were Franklin D. Roosevelt and General George C. Marshall. Winston Churchill was also on the team. Patton was a fierce field commander and an almost mystical student of military history, but headlong narcissism impaired his sight from time to time. He had trouble judging those in power over him. We all do. Either we are infuriated by people who outrank us, or we overvalue those in whom we have invested hopes. Trusting leaders involves risks, acts of faith...
...other day, on the anniversary of Franklin Roosevelt's death in 1945, I drove over to Hyde Park to look, again, at Springwood, FDR's family estate on the Hudson. What impressed me was its modesty, its homeliness, even its shabbiness here and there. In the upstairs rooms, in FDR's bedroom itself, there lingers an atmosphere of haunting plainness. A bed. A few chairs. A bureau. A primitive version of a telephone hot line installed on the wall near the head of the bed. A few mementos. Down the hall is the dumbwaiter by which FDR hauled himself...
What follows is a whirlwind romp through American history as it pertains to the Supreme Court. Rehnquist offers short sketches of influential justices who aren’t as well known, such as Justices Joseph Story, Samuel Miller and Rufus Peckham. His description of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s failed attempt to “pack” the Supreme Court is especially engaging, and brings to life the drama of the event. Every major case touched upon in high school U.S. history is at least mentioned, and sometimes lavishly described, up through the Warren Court. Marbury v. Madison...
Recently, a commission funded by the Oklahoma legislature investigated the riot. Its purpose was to “excavate a history that had been consigned to oblivion for the past 75 years,” according to the distinguished historian John Hope Franklin...
...even watch the Geena Davis show. But some things are too scary to even channel-flip through. Consider this headline regarding the next edition of VH1’s “Divas Live”: “Kid Rock, Backstreet Boys To Join In Salute To Aretha Franklin...