“My major allegiance has been to storytelling, not to history.”
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I much prefer working with kids whose life could be completely upended by a reading of a book over a weekend. You give them a book to read - they go home and come back a changed person. And that is so much more interesting and exciting.
No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him.
Bulls don't read. Bears read financial history. As markets fall to bits, the bears dust off the Dutch tulip mania of 1637, the Banque Royale of 1719-20, the railway speculation of the 1840s, the great crash of 1929.
There's always a part of your nation's history that you haven't been told that... has a powerful impact on how you yourself may behave and may believe.
