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Il y a 2 jours · The 1876 United States presidential election was the 23rd quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 7, 1876. Incumbent Republican president Ulysses S. Grant declined to run for a third term, so the party chose Rutherford B. Hayes, the governor of Ohio, as its nominee.
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- Rutherford B. Hayes
- William A. Wheeler
Il y a 6 jours · Set during the American Civil War, the novel describes the presidency of Abraham Lincoln through the eyes of several historical figures, including presidential secretary John Hay, First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln, Secretary of State William H. Seward, Secretary of the Treasury Salmon Chase, his daughter Kate Chase, U.S. Representative Elihu B. Washb...
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Il y a 1 jour · The progressive philosopher and Democratic candidate Gore Vidal once wrote in an essay, “At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice.” How true ...
Il y a 6 jours · In Imperial America, the conclusion of this landmark trilogy and his most devastating exploration of contemporary America yet, Vidal observes that there's something suspicious about the "ever reckless Cheney-Bush junta." They have created the Department of Homeland Security, the USA PATRIOT Act, and embarked upon a series of wars in ...
Il y a 3 jours · The influence of “the harder anti-Americans” and the “Noam Chomsky-Gore Vidal left” has left many. intellectually disarmed to entertain the possibility that power can be power for the good as well as for the bad, that it is frequently both, and that some sorts of power are worse — far worse, unspeakably much worse — than others.
30 juin 2024 · If Ronald Reagan was, to quote Gore Vidal, “a triumph of the embalmer’s art”, Joe resembles an ostrich stuffed by an amateur – his eyes black marbles, the sharp teeth set in an alarming grin....
25 juin 2024 · Gore Vidal was calling for us, as a people, to wake up, to save what the founders left us. Before it all goes away. “The people at large have been kept ignorant by bad schools and by the ...
