Autobiography is awfully seductive; it’s wonderful. Once I got into it, I realized I was following a tradition established by Frederick Douglass – the slave narrative – speaking in the first-person singular, talking about the first-person plural, always saying ‘I,’ meaning ‘we.’
Harnessing steam power required many innovations, as William Rosen chronicles in the book ‘The Most Powerful Idea in the World.’
The terrorist action of 9/11 gave birth to President Obama’s entry to the White House. Not directly, but indirectly.
Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
In the early days of aviation, there was a great deal of experimentation and a high death rate.
Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.
Better still – your history has shown how powerful a moral catharsis expressed through popular resistance to injustice can sometimes be; I have in mind the grassroots opposition to the Vietnam War.
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