Word: rooseveltism
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...when both candidates named leaders they admire, Bradley went for the obscure--Woodrow Wilson and Mikhail Gorbachev. (Gore was more mainstream--Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt...
...program since the fourth grade because, she says, "I want him to have the same educational experience as whites"--one of higher quality than he would get in the inner city. Jonathan's neighborhood friends often taunt him for being too good to simply walk the six blocks to Roosevelt High. But "all they do there is fight every day," he says. "You've got to worry about the gangs and what color you're wearing." He appreciates Webster's relative safety and its pride in racial diversity. Indeed, long before the 1970s desegregation, Webster Groves boasted an integrated community...
...spoke about biography being autobiographical. There's a lot in the biography that has a lot to do with you--references to Clare Booth Luce, to Teddy Roosevelt, and the musicality of the text. How much is this also a book of you, and how much is it a book of the United States during this century...
...book because it's directly related to how I became Reagan's biographer, and when I do talk about myself it is for structural reasons. And you are absolutely right about Reagan representing all aspects of America. Indeed, what draws me to people like him and Theodore Roosevelt, as an immigrant, is that in studying men like that it's an education for me [about] the actual folk character of my adopted country. The midwest, which seems so banal and blah to most native Americans, to me as an immigrant is very exotic and strange...
...What's next? Are you going to finish Theodore Roosevelt...