It was the kind of country that made you feel better about yourself.
Many of these new readers were not yet college-educated, but in terms of their seriousness about the world, their own literacy, and above all their ambitions for their children, they might as well hav...
Fresh from the rarefied environments of Harvard, the author says he purposefully took journalism jobs in small southern towns so that he could learn the art of conversation with ordinary people. Is th...
Do you know what the greatest test is? Do you still get excited about what you do when you get up in the morning?
Being well known for being well-known did not necessarily imply intelligence.
An aristocracy come to power, convinced of its own disinterested quality, believing itself above both petty partisan interest and material greed. The suggestion that this also meant the holding and wi...
Alexander Dow, his boss at Edison, who thought him immensely talented, tried to dissuade him. Electricity, yes, Dow told Ford. That’s the coming thing. But gas—no.
Nothing in the period that followed was too good for the Rouge; it had the best blast furnaces, the best machine tools, the best metal labs, the best electrical systems, the most efficient efficiency...
he was almost joyously what he had always been, a lot of gee whiz, it was all new and fresh even when surely he had seen much of it before, and it was as if he took delight in not having been changed...