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...professor of early American history and culture at the University of South Florida and an established Franklin scholar, Currey previously published a sober, closely documented work, Road to Revolution/Benjamin Franklin in England, 1765-1775. In his latest book he presents accusations by Franklin's associates that, as an envoy, he was possessed of "cunning, invention and artifice...
never did get back to the E-ring sober...
...President's mountaintop appointments have a sober clarity: they are meant to give Nixon control of parts of the Government that eluded him in his first term. His selections are expected to be as good at taking orders as at executing them. The group has the look of a tight, no-nonsense team, utterly devoted to the chief-a White House staff writ large...
...foreign policy particularly, Nixon has demonstrated a Disraeli touch. Disraeli based his foreign policy on a sober, unsentimental appraisal of the national interest. What was good for England, he thought, was good for the world, and it worked out that way-for a time. Disraeli was determined to maintain a balance of power by preventing Russian expansion-as much feared in the 19th century as it came to be in the 20th. To do this, he had to prop up the decaying Ottoman Empire, a policy that outraged Liberals who felt that it was a violation of British principles...
...bourbon. Others will move up from pop wine to drier, more complex wines. Americans seem to be shedding the nation's raw, hard-drinking past for a new, more subtle way of indulging themselves. As Thomas Jefferson said: "No nation is drunken where wine is cheap; and none sober where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage...