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...frightened for our domestic security and financial safety when the White House holds secret talks to protect the robber barons who pillage us. Are our elected leaders protecting the American people, or are they only looking after their friends in Big Business? RANDY E. HENDERSON Romney, W.Va...
...political ones often seem irrelevant. Morris’ biography might have pointed out more prominently the ambiguous legacy of Roosevelt’s colonialism, or that it was not Roosevelt but his obesely benign successor William Howard Taft who had the most success busting trusts and regulating the robber barons. And he offers less psychologizing in this volume than in his account of Roosevelt’s early years; there is little talk, for instance, of Roosevelt’s father, whom he adored and feared to an uncommon degree. These flaws are dwarfed, however, by the real subject...
...political ones often seem irrelevant. Morris’ biography might have pointed out more prominently the ambiguous legacy of Roosevelt’s colonialism, or that it was not Roosevelt but his obesely benign successor William Howard Taft who had the most success busting trusts and regulating the robber barons. And he offers less psychologizing in this volume than in his account of Roosevelt’s early years; there is little talk, for instance, of Roosevelt’s father, whom he adored and feared to an uncommon degree. These flaws are dwarfed, however, by the real subject...
Thornton's seriousness comes through best in his work, including the three movies he's starring in this season: in Bandits, which opened last month, he plays a Woody Allenish neurotic bank robber; in the Coen brothers' retro film noir The Man Who Wasn't There, he's a poignantly understated 1940s Job; and in December's death-row drama Monster Ball, his depressed prison guard finds a reason for living in a mixed-race relationship with Halle Berry. This guy does all right for himself...
Pasquarello said he could not comment on whether or not the robber left with any money...