"Throughout this book, we have tried to avoid using any of the jibes that are commonplace on both sides of the debate;…"

"A firm believer that "manners makyth man," [Prescott Bush] once took Joseph McCarthy to one side and lectured…"

"George H. W. has always had a reputation of being "somewhat to the center of center". Many Texans mistook his East Co…"

"An Irish Catholic who grew up on a small farm in the Midwest and attended Marquette, a Catholic university in Milwauk…"

"Another caped crusader was Ayn Rand, a Russian émigré who wrote a clutch of novels celebrating economic individualism…"

"[Barry] Goldwater cheerfully broke all the basic rules of politics. … One fan came up with a soft drin…"

"Theodore H. White tells a remarkable story about Goldwater's chief speechwriter, Karl Hess. Chief speechwriters of lo…"

"Reformism had mutated into radicalism, with something of an anti-American bent. Four-fifths of the delegates in 1972 …"

"Anyone who worries about George W. Bush's adventurous fiscal strategy of cutting taxes while increasing spending migh…"

"Nowadays the idea that America has a neoconservative foreign policy is commonplace. Yet until September 11, the neoco…"