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" Knievel seemed braver and more brazen - and more unhinged - than any other athlete-cum-thrill-seeker of his era. "
Douglas Brinkley
Than
Any
Braver
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" Reagan was a pure liberation, free-and-fair election American. "
Douglas Brinkley
American
Liberation
Pure
" The superhighway of celebrity and showmanship is filled with debris. "
Douglas Brinkley
Celebrity
Filled
Showmanship
" In 2012, the city of Austin erected an eight-foot-tall bronze statue of Willie Nelson in the heart of the business district. Schoolchildren, churchgoers, tourists, slackers, conventioneers, tech geeks - everybody, it seems - now congregate around this ponytailed shrine to outlaw country. "
Douglas Brinkley
Now
City
Heart
" Richard Kerry not only was a pilot in World War II, but was a civil servant. He did not come from money. "
Douglas Brinkley
Money
World War II
World
" I think, along with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks will go down as one of the two most well-known and remembered figures out of the Civil Rights Movement. "
Douglas Brinkley
Rights
Two
Think
" Animals interest me more than anything else. "
Douglas Brinkley
Anything
Animals
Me
" When I was 8 years old, I made my own encyclopedia of American biography - Johnny Appleseed, Jim Bowie, Davy Crockett, Daniel Boone, Charles Lindbergh, my pantheon of favorite heroes. Then I would write my own things and sew them together and try to make my own book. "
Douglas Brinkley
Book
American
My Own
" Nobody has trusted the Iranian government from day one, but the idea of just refusing to have any kind of talks is dangerous in the extreme. Every administration says at least that we're trying to have talks between Israel and Palestine and solve the Middle East peace problem. "
Douglas Brinkley
Problem
Government
Trying
" Everybody trusted Cronkite because he reminded them of their favorite uncle or trusted family physician. Being square in the age of the Beatles made Cronkite retro cool. "
Douglas Brinkley
Physician
Uncle
Age
" One of the things I learned in editing 'The Reagan Diaries' is to never say what Reagan would do, because he surprised people. "
Douglas Brinkley
Say
People
Never
" I was stunned to find out there had never been a serious, scholarly biography ever written on Rosa Parks. "
Douglas Brinkley
Serious
Parks
Never
" History chalks up Mr. McKinley's War as a U.S. win, and he also polls favorably as a 'near great' president. "
Douglas Brinkley
History
Win
War
" If you're a Kennedy and you go to Italy or you go to Argentina, you're treated as royalty. And in the United States, we're endlessly fascinated by the family. "
Douglas Brinkley
Go
You
Family
" When we settled our country, the dark forest was considered in some ways evil and something that you needed to plow or, later, bulldoze. We now have a new understanding of the interconnectedness of ecosystems and the need for bird flyways and why all species matter. "
Douglas Brinkley
Forest
Bird
Dark
" Broadcast radio was entering its own golden age during the Depression, with live programming on stations all through the day. Local stations needed singers, musicians, announcers, and whipcord personalities, along with Christian clergy to give prayers and pundits to speak on world affairs. "
Douglas Brinkley
Speak
World
Age
" Some presidents, such as Bill Clinton and John F. Kennedy, are political sailors - they tack with the wind, reaching difficult policy objectives through bipartisan maneuvering and pulse-taking. "
Douglas Brinkley
Policy
Difficult
Wind
" If D-Day - the greatest amphibious operation ever undertaken - failed, there would be no going back to the drawing board for the Allies. Regrouping and attempting another massive invasion of German-occupied France even a few months later in 1944 wasn't an option. "
Douglas Brinkley
Drawing
Going
Greatest
" John Kerry can be absolutely ruthless. I would not want to be on his enemies list when he's ready to go after you. "
Douglas Brinkley
Ready
You
Go
" Now I'm the father of three children; I'm not able to go live on a bus and do semesters around the country like I did when I was young. "
Douglas Brinkley
Three
Father
Country
" Her continuity - you know, if you connect Harriet Tubman, who died in 1913, to Rosa Parks, born in 1913, you get this extraordinary spectrum of the African-American experience. "
Douglas Brinkley
Know
Experience
Born
" To Armstrong, constantly speaking about 'Apollo 11' only diminished the magic. That's why he worked overtime to avoid notice, living a quiet life in Indian Hill, Ohio. "
Douglas Brinkley
Life
Hill
Why
" February was always the cruelest month for Hunter S. Thompson. An avid NFL fan, Hunter traditionally embraced the Super Bowl in January as the high-water mark of his year. "
Douglas Brinkley
January
Mark
Always
" The world of high-stakes international diplomacy can be rough and tumble, but it's more often than not a procession of suits and summits, protocol sessions and photo ops. "
Douglas Brinkley
More
Diplomacy
World
" President Abraham Lincoln never lost his ardor for the United States to remain united during the Civil War. "
Douglas Brinkley
President
Civil War
Lost
" The Middle East is the tinder box of the world, and to be able to remove a nuclear threat of any kind out of Iran, that would have been a big deal, very positive step forward. "
Douglas Brinkley
Positive
Forward
Kind
" New Orleans is just a microcosm of Newark and Detroit and hundreds of other troubled urban locales. "
Douglas Brinkley
New
Urban
New Orleans
" The D-Day moniker wasn't invented for the Allied invasion. The same name had been attached to the date of every planned offensive of World War II. It was first coined during World War I, at the U.S. attack at the Battle of Saint-Mihiel, in France in 1918. "
Douglas Brinkley
World
World War I
War
" What I was most curious about was why Armstrong, a top U.S. Navy test pilot, flying the most advanced aircraft in the world, would want to join the astronaut corps in 1962, which included chimpanzees and monkeys. "
Douglas Brinkley
World
Test
Navy
" John Kerry only went to prep schools because he had an aunt who had the money to pay for his way into those prep schools. "
Douglas Brinkley
Pay
Way
Only
" Truman has become the patron saint of failed presidents because he left office with a 27 percent approval rating, and people were saying, 'To err is Truman,' yet look at what he did: the Marshall Plan, the creation of NATO, the Truman Doctrine. "
Douglas Brinkley
People
Look
Creation