Abigail Adams
When Barbara Bush concluded her commencement address at Wellesley College in 1990, she asked her audience to consider this possibility: “Who knows? Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow in my footsteps, and…
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Thomas Jefferson: Author of America Christopher Hitchens Harper Perennial (2009) Who was behind “the opaque curtain”? About this time of year, I re-read brief biographies of my favorite U.S. Presidents such as this one, written by one of the most…
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Here is a sequence of brief excerpts from an interview of David McCullough by Brian Bolduc, featured in The Wall Street Journal (June 18, 2011). To read the complete interview, please click here. * * * The popular historian David…
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