But things were changing. Everywhere one looked the boundary between the moral and the wicked seemed to be degrading. Elizabeth Cady Stanton argued in favor of divorce. Clarence Darrow advocated free...
As a rule, I am very skeptical of tying books to anniversaries. I don't think readers care. I also feel that it just about guarantees that somebody else will be writing a book on the same subject, but...
Dodd acknowledged Congress's reluctance to become entangled abroad but added, "I do, however, think facts count; even if we hate them.
To remain silent is out of the question for a strong and honest man.
Expected, well suited to Germany’s guerrilla
THE DATE WAS APRIL 14, 1912, a sinister day in maritime history, but of course the man in suite 63–65, shelter deck C, did not yet know it.
She asked, what would he do if a lady happened to insist? Turner replied, Madam, do you think that would be a lady?
Perhaps, Herr Ditzen, it is less important where one lives than how one lives.
Only Poe could have dreamed the rest.
No sir, Dunwoody snapped. It cannot be; no cyclone ever can move from Florida to Galveston.
Messersmith, in a dispatch, observed that even smart, well-traveled Germans will sit and calmly tell you the most extraordinary fairy tales.
In losing her he lost not merely his main source of companionship but also his primary adviser, whose observations he had found so useful in helping shape his own thinking.
However strange or macabre some of the following incidents may seem, this is not a work of fiction.
How easy it was to disappear: A thousand trains a day entered or left Chicago.
There are no heroes here, at least not of the Schindler’s List variety, but there are glimmers of heroism and people who behave with unexpected grace.
The Chancellor’s assurances were so satisfying and so unexpected that I think they are on the whole too good to be true, Messersmith wrote. We must keep in mind, I believe, that when Hitler says anyth...
She loved their funny stiff dancing, listening to their incomprehensible and guttural tongue, and watching their simple gestures, natural behavior and childlike eagerness for life.
Samuel Gompers, standing at the back of speaker’s wagon No. 5, ask, Why should the wealth of the country be stored in banks and elevators while the idle workman wanders homeless about the streets and...
On deck, he encountered another young man, Thomas Sumner, of Atherton, England, who also had a camera. (Sumner bore no relation to Cunard’s New York manager, Charles Sumner.) Both hoped to take photog...
Later, a passenger reported seeing a woman giving birth in the water. The idea that this might have been his mother would haunt the boy for the rest of his life.