My next book is also set in the eighteenth century. It's about the Revolution, with the focus on the year 1776. It's about Washington and the army and the war. It's the nadir, the low point of the Uni...
There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right it is the ideal American who is all wrong.
In America, anyone can become president. That's one of the risks you take.
As we look over the list of the early leaders of the republic, Washington, John Adams, Hamilton, and others, we discern that they were all men who insisted upon being themselves and who refused to tru...
As I've said many times, the single most oppressed class in America right now is the teenager.
I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.
On behalf of NARAL Pro-Choice America - and our one million member activists - I am honored to be here to talk to you about what's at stake for women in 2012. I am proud to say that the Democratic Par...
White folks, no matter how well-meaning or open-minded, have no true idea what it's like to be black in America. That's not a slam against white people or an accusation of latent bigotry. But the fact...
The spirit is at home, if not entirely satisfied, in America.
It was very much like Norman Rockwell: small town America. We walked to school or rode our bikes, stopped at the penny candy store on the way home from school, skated on the pond.
From the catbird seat, I've found poetry to be the necessary utterance it has always been in America.
The similarities are limited but real. They amount to a shared disgust with politics as usual in America. The Tea Party focuses on the federal government Occupy Wall Street focuses on corporate Americ...
The big curse of America, to me, is skinless, boneless chicken breasts. They're banal and relatively flavorless. The rest of the world's trying to get some fat to eat, and we're trying to ban it from...
A declaration of the independence of America, and the sovereignty of the United States was drawn by the ingenious and philosophic pen of Thomas Jefferson, Esquire, a delegate from the state of Virgini...
There exists in some parts of the world sanctimonious criticism of America's death penalty, as somehow unworthy of a civilized society.
I partied in every capital in Europe, basked on all the famous beaches, and good-timed it in South America, the South Seas, the Orient, and the more palatable portions of Africa.
I shall enter on no encomium upon Massachussets she needs none. There she is. Behold her and judge for yourselves.
That enfabled rock that ship of life that swarming million-footed tower-masted sky-soaring citadel that bears the magic name of the Island of Manhattan.
When my country, into which I had just set my foot, was set on fire about my ears, it was time to stir. It was time for every man to stir.
Each member of this shadowy network resented the others, who were irritating reminders that nothing was more American, whatever that means, than fleeing the American, whatever that is, and that their...