Rick Perlstein
Quotes by Rick Perlstein
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He talks to people's grievances, but he doesn't seem mad. – Elizabeth Drew
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Chronicling the mid-1970s up session with Gerald Ford's clumsiness, the author quotes a medieval maxim that the king has two bodies. The head of state has a physical body like everyone else, but he also represents the body politic, either reflecting its majesty or its weakness.
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What does sincerity mean if it is chosen as deliberate strategy?
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An anti-politician is hardly an anti-politician once he starts winning and works to close the deal by working to sew up the Establishment.
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Governing is not a hero's profession. It is a profession of compromises.
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Now even reformers needed political machines.
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Politics is motion. John Sears
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Presidents are also always storytellers, purveyors of useful national mythologies.
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Stories are how we organize the chaos of experience into the order we require just a carry-on. Joan Gideon
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College was at the heart of his sentimental imagination.
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Politics is motion. John Sears
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College was at the heart of his sentimental imagination.
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Governing is not a hero's profession. It is a profession of compromises.
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An anti-politician is hardly an anti-politician once he starts winning and works to close the deal by working to sew up the Establishment.
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What does sincerity mean if it is chosen as deliberate strategy?
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Stories are how we organize the chaos of experience into the order we require just a carry-on. Joan Gideon
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Now even reformers needed political machines.
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Presidents are also always storytellers, purveyors of useful national mythologies.
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He talks to people's grievances, but he doesn't seem mad. – Elizabeth Drew
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Chronicling the mid-1970s up session with Gerald Ford's clumsiness, the author quotes a medieval maxim that the king has two bodies. The head of state has a physical body like everyone else, but he also represents the body politic, either reflecting its majesty or its weakness.
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