Books that are based on facts, real events, and real lives.
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
Doris Kearns Goodwin – Teams of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.
Doris Kearns Goodwin – Teams of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
I would rather be a little nobody, then to be an evil somebody.
Doris Kearns Goodwin – Teams of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
Doris Kearns Goodwin – Teams of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
The past is an inheritance, a gift and a burden.
Jill Lepore – These Truths: A History of the United States
To study the past is to unlock the prison of the present.
Jill Lepore – These Truths: A History of the United States
History is the art of making an argument about the past by telling a story accountable to evidence.
Jill Lepore – These Truths: A History of the United States
The work of the historian is not the work of the critic or of the moralist.
Jill Lepore – These Truths: A History of the United States
Evidence is always partial. Facts are not truth, though they are part of it – information chiseled in relief against the bedrock of what we can know.
Jill Lepore – These Truths: A History of the United States
Nations, like people, tell stories in order to understand who they are.
Jill Lepore – These Truths: A History of the United States