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When describing even the admittedly racist South, Schama uses phrases like “theirs was a revolution, first and foremost, mobilized to protect slavery,” taking revisionism beyond corrective steering, into an opposite view of the standard heroic American myth. Of course the reality is more complex—a fact that Schama fairly acknowledges throughout the book—but several of his contentions aim for catchphrase status at the expense of historical fairness...
...Ultimately, I chose not to take up the punch invitation. I won’t try to cast this as a particularly heroic act—obviously, it wasn’t. But my experience did convince me that principles and privileges don’t mesh well, and that temptation—in my world, at least—doesn’t tend toward the better of these...
...individual of rare honesty, courage and popularity to jolt the people out of complacency - and to the realization that there are too few like Politkovskaya left in their midst. But few of the embattled though sizable crowd gathered in the chilly rain to pay their last respects to a heroic journalist would have expected that 15 years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, they would have occasion to once again feel like dissidents in the face of an all-powerful state...
...Woodward's first book on this Administration, Bush At War, was hagiography, the prose equivalent of those post-9/11 Annie Leibovitz photographs for Vanity Fair that captured the President and his War Cabinet in heroic still lifes. Woodward, the world's most famous investigative reporter and an assistant managing editor at the Washington Post, took a lot of heat for going soft on the President in Bush At War, but the author's critics were wrong to suggest he was politically motivated. That book, remember, chronicled the President and his inner circle during the first three months after 9/11...
...rambunctious son, who ran down the halls demanding to see the gun of everyone in uniform. She helped me decide to euthanize my 15-year-old cat. I had been informed by the vet that he was dying of kidney trouble, and the question was whether to attempt a heroic procedure. "Putting a suffering animal to sleep is the last great act of love you can do for him," said Tami, who had a houseful of felines herself. I made the call and bawled in her arms...