MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE by Michael Wolraich Order today at Barnes & Noble / Amazon / Books-A-Million / Bookshop |
Sept. 13 NYT Review of Books. Excerpts from a longer interview with Bob Woodward and his how and what of book reading...
I was struck by this exchange:
What’s the most interesting thing you learned from a book recently?
I was reminded how poisonous and unhappy a life of intolerance and score-settling can be by John A. Farrell’s excellent and penetrating 737-page biography, “Richard Nixon: The Life.” As Nixon said in his farewell address the day he resigned, “Always remember, others may hate you, but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.”
At that climactic moment, he seemed to glimpse that hate was the piston that had defined his presidency and ultimately brought him down.