Richard Brookhiser
@RBrookhiser
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Biographer, historian, journalist, senior editor National Review (my columns: City Desk, Country Life)
www.richardbrookhiser.com
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John Adams on George Washington: "He possessed the gift of silence. This I esteem as one of the most precious talents."
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When I was in college I heard a talk by Alger Hiss, who clerked for Justice Holmes, who told Lincoln to get down! during Jubal Early's raid on DC. In Congress Lincoln knew JQA who heard the cannon of Bunker Hill from his house in Braintree.
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American tourist tackled hammer-wielding thief trying to steal Magna Carta via
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Helping our transatlantic cousins once again. (Love the wife's reax.)
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I got my two author's copies of John Marshall: The Man Who Made the Supreme Court. My wife took me out to dinner to celebrate.
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Washington's elections were the cheapest campaigns ever. All he had to do was not say he wouldn't serve.
@RBrookhiser
Of course Washington 'stood' for office. He didn't 'run' for office. Monroe 'rode' for office.
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My first book party. Doubleday's function room on Fifth Ave., long gone. So is WFB. So is that multi-colored jacket, and most of the hair.
"The WASP character is the American character. It is the mold, the template, the archetype... Without the WASP, it would be another country altogether. Without the continuing influence of his values, it is sure to lose its way."
'The Way of the WASP'
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pic with WFB
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Midcentury man reported by a drone in Sector 6, sir.
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Is there an enterprising reporter who wants to ask?
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Colonial Americans Drank Roughly Three Times as Much as Americans Do Now Cf. Franklin's list of synonyms for "drunk."
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My take on the show:
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's Hamilton biography.
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Q: What did John Marshall admire most about Thomas Jefferson?
A: Nothing.
Have you listened to this week’s
#DoingHistory
episode of
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I believe it did fail.
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The US is lucky that Lee was not executed. He was the symbol of the South to his people. Had he been punished, Reconstruction would have been much, much more bitter and violent and might have ultimately failed. See 21st Century Iraq.
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Let me say again, all praise to the team
@BasicBooks
for designing such a wonderful cover. The casual glasses and twitch of a smile: perfect.
.
@RBrookhiser
's fantastic biography of John Marshall has just landed! Huzzah!
@BasicBooks
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Jefferson's mind was a house with many rooms; they did not all have connecting doors.
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Was a bit tongue in cheek. i don’t think another ‘founding father’ is more of a personal disappointment then tj. slavery/Sally Hemings, gross debt,smear campaign on Adams, backstabbing of GW. Pretty ugly from the man that was THE epitome of 1776 when I was in elementary school
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Off to Richmond to address, tomorrow , the John Marshall Foundation's Madeira Society.
Best. Historical. Group. Name. Ever.
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Linda Bridges, RIP God better not make any typos, is all I can say.
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"A stout heart, a clear conscience, and never despair"--John Quincy Adams.
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Budweiser created a beer based on a 261-year-old recipe in George Washington's journal — here's the verdict (BUD) "Balanced and old school--a fitting tribute to Washington."
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There was a great Bolshie named Lenin
Who did 2 or 3 million men in.
That's a lot to have done in.
But where he did one in
That grand Bolshie Stalin did ten in.
--Robert Conquest
@WilliamConn61
@RBrookhiser
I highly recommend Johnson's book. See this article re Bolshevism - literally a dead-end path:
via
@epochtimes
#NoBolshevism
#NoCollectivism
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Halfway through my John Marshall bio, I think he would only use Twitter if the character limit were raised to 15,000 words.
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We may not be interested in history, but history is interested in us.
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