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Administration policies seem to tacitly encourage those who live below sea level in New Orleans to relocate permanently, to leave the dangerous water's edge for more prosperous inland cities such as Shreveport or Baton Rouge.

~Douglas Brinkley

Topics: Administration Baton Below Cities Dangerous Edge Encourage Leave Level Live More New New Orleans Orleans Permanently Policies Prosperous Sea Seem Those Water Who

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New Orleans is just a microcosm of Newark and Detroit and hundreds of other troubled urban locales.

~Douglas Brinkley

Topics: Detroit Hundreds Just Microcosm New New Orleans Orleans Other Troubled Urban

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The world of high-stakes international diplomacy can be rough and tumble, but it's more often than not a procession of suits and summits, protocol sessions and photo ops.

~Douglas Brinkley

Topics: Diplomacy International More Often Photo Protocol Rough Suits Than World

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Broadcast radio was entering its own golden age during the Depression, with live programming on stations all through the day. Local stations needed singers, musicians, announcers, and whipcord personalities, along with Christian clergy to give prayers and pundits to speak on world affairs.

~Douglas Brinkley

Topics: Affairs Age Along Broadcast Christian Clergy Day Depression Entering Give Golden Golden Age Live Local Musicians Needed Own Personalities Prayers Programming Pundits Radio Singers Speak Stations Through World

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The Rough Riders brought honor to San Antonio by winning battles in Cuba throughout the summer of 1898, and Roosevelt became a Texas folk hero overnight.

~Douglas Brinkley

Topics: Battles Became Brought Cuba Folk Hero Honor Overnight Riders Roosevelt Rough San San Antonio Summer Texas Throughout Winning

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Truman has become the patron saint of failed presidents because he left office with a 27 percent approval rating, and people were saying, 'To err is Truman,' yet look at what he did: the Marshall Plan, the creation of NATO, the Truman Doctrine.

~Douglas Brinkley

Topics: Approval Because Become Creation Did Doctrine Err Failed He Left Look Marshall Marshall Plan Nato Office Patron People Percent Plan Presidents Rating Saint Saying Truman Were

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When terrorists blew up the Marine barracks in Lebanon, Reagan was frustrated and furious, as Bush was after 9/11. But he didn't stick us in a war in the Middle East with no exit.

~Douglas Brinkley

Topics: After Blew Bush East Exit Frustrated Furious He Lebanon Marine Middle Middle East Reagan Stick Terrorists Up Us War

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There is no real way to categorize McLean's 'American Pie' for its hybrid of modern poetry and folk ballad, beer-hall chant and high-art rock.

~Douglas Brinkley

Topics: American Categorize Chant Folk Hybrid Modern Pie Poetry Real Rock Way

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Having recorded his first album, 'Tapestry,' in 1969, in Berkeley, California, during the student riots, McLean, a native New Yorker, became a kind of weather vane for what he called the 'generation lost in space.'

~Douglas Brinkley

Topics: Album Became Berkeley California First Generation Having He His Kind Lost Native New New Yorker Recorded Riots Space Student Tapestry Weather Yorker

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Influenced by Pete Seeger and the Weavers, McLean proudly wore the mantle of troubadour in the early 1970s, when 'American Pie' topped the Billboard charts, and has never shed the cape.

~Douglas Brinkley

Topics: American Billboard Cape Charts Early Influenced Mantle Never Pie Proudly Shed Wore 1970S

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: December 14th, 1960

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