Television was suppressing their freedom not to know.

Rick Perlstein
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  1. College was at the heart of his sentimental imagination.

  2. Stories are "how we organize the chaos of experience into the order we require just a carry-on." Joan Gideon

  3. Presidents are also always storytellers, purveyors of useful national mythologies.

  4. Politics is motion." John Sears

  5. What does sincerity mean if it is chosen as deliberate strategy?

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