Doris Kearns Goodwin
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Books of the year
Was it Thomas Cromwell's machinations, a frustrated MP's diaries, or a novelist's treatment of his father's suicide? We asked a few people… Peter Carey – novelist Kamila Shamsie's Burnt Shadows (Bloomsbury) has huge ambition...
Obama’s Swelling Ego
Boston.com PRESIDENT OBAMA was too busy to attend the celebrations in Germany this week marking the fall of the Berlin Wall 20 years ago. But he did appear by video, delivering a few brief and bloodless remarks about how the...
A Seattlite moves up in the Obama Administration - Seattle Post Intelligencer
CBS News A Seattlite moves up in the Obama Administration Seattle Post Intelligencer A recently transplanted Seattlite, Dr. Rajiv Shah, was nominated on Tuesday to head the US Agency for International Development, a job that...
How to Define Leadership
is. Leadership is having the trust of a group that you can inspire to do something good. A definition more inclusive is "Leadership is ultimately about creating a way for people to contribute to making something extraordinary...
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Quote of the Day
Doris Kearns Goodwin on Morning Joe: What happened to [political] parties in this country? I mean, I think it’s a deadly thing – parties used to be part of peoples’ identity. There used to be parades, they used to go running...
NBC's Mitchell Hails Hillary Clinton: 'Foreign Policy Superstar!'
In a piece that could've been crafted by Hillary Clinton's PR shop, NBC's Andrea Mitchell, on Monday's Today show, gushed on and on about the Secretary of State's new "role of a lifetime," as a "a foreign policy superstar," and...
On Today, NBC's Okwu Hails Obama as 'Hugger-in-Chief'
Late on Tuesday's Today show, NBC's Michael Okwu declared hugging is all the rage now that President Obama, AKA "The Hugger-in-Chief," has replaced handshakes with hugs. Al Roker introduced the Okwu story as he pondered: "With...
NBC Uses Kemp Obit to Tout Obama as Proof U.S. a 'Great' Nation
In a brief item Monday evening about Jack Kemp's passing, the NBC Nightly News delivered an obit on Kemp's life, but while Brian Williams didn't find room in his 37-second update to mention how Kemp was behind the successful,...
In town to accept the Nashville Public Library Literary Award, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian...
Last year, when Barack Obama appointed his chief Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton, as secretary of state, the media widely reported that his decision had been influenced by reading Team of Rivals , a Pulitzer Prize-winning...
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