Ty Cobb was one of the greatest baseball players of all time and king of the so-called Deadball Era. But for all that, most Americans think of him first as an awful person.
Who Was Ty Cobb? The History We Know That’s Wrong
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Margaret Thatcher is one of the great prime ministers in British history, and one of the longest serving, at least in continuous times. Economic Lessons from American History
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Europeans today prefer leisure to performance, security to risk-taking, paternalism to free markets, collectivism and group entitlements to individualism. On Václav Klaus
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It is one of the wonders of the political world that John Adams and Thomas Jefferson both died on the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. Hero, Standing
Heroes have become invisible. Their virtues have become unexplainable in the language we now use to explain human actions Heroes: What Great Statesmen Have to Teach Us
From the heroes of the past we learn, and what they teach, by the example of their lives and words, has the special quality of truth by personal example. The Legacy of the 1936 Election
In 1936, Roosevelt’s was also the popularity of a leader who had invented a new way to reward the constituencies that he needed to win.