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David McCullough, who won an American Book Award this year for his biography of Theodore Roosevelt, Mornings on Horseback, has researched all his books at the Athenaeum. He calls the library "a marvelous example of what a great city ought to provide." Writes Poet David McCord: "The high-ceilinged rooms, the little balconies, alcoves, nooks and angles all suggest sanctuary, escape, creature comfort. The reader, the scholar, the browser, the borrower is king...
...along 1-75, the highway that runs north from Florida, suburbs branch off, filled with people who, for the most part, found what they came for but expected more for their kids. Near the town of Taylor, Mich., in a house with a Roosevelt commemorative plate on a rail above the table, someone on television is announcing the worst year for car sales since 1961. Lee lacocca, the chairman of Chrysler, insists he is excited about next year. No one listens. The people in the house are talking about neighbors who went to Houston or Tulsa looking for work...
...Kennedy's first acts in the White House was to order 200 books on the presidency put on his shelves for easy access. "Roosevelt got most of his ideas from talking to people," Kennedy told Historian James MacGregor Burns. "I get most of mine from reading...
When Carthan was elected mayor, four other blacks were elected to the five-member board of aldermen. With the support of three of them, Carthan embarked on an ambitious agenda, building a day care center and public housing. The anti-Carthan aldermen were Roosevelt Granderson, a grocery store clerk, and John Edgar Hays, a white cotton farmer. In 1978, one of Carthan's bloc resigned. He was replaced by another black, an ally of Granderson and Hays. The political balance shifted, and acrimony intensified...
...Washington a Mid-western housewife who had lived all her life under the same roof with her mother. She did not smoke or drink or swear. She liked Charles Dickens and Sir Walter Scott but thought modern novels "a waste of time." After her husband succeeded Franklin D. Roosevelt in the White House, Bess burned a stack of Harry's love letters. "But think of history," Harry protested. "I have," she said...