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Brett Alan Williams
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The Father: America Leaves the American Century (The Father Trilogy, #1)
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The Worst of Things: America in the 21st Century (The Father Trilogy, #2)
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June 28, 2026: What’s all this fuss about America’s 250th? America voluntarily terminated in 2024.
Is it just me, or are others as baffled by all the magazine covers, the “blowout sale-a-thons,” the television “celebration extravaganzas” for America’s 250th anniversary? How many people gather friends and relatives, bake a birthday cake, and toast the only person not there: the dead one? Shouldn’t our 4th of July be the dirge of a funeral march, or a shouting match on FOX RT over just what kille
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| This Pulitzer Prize-winning book does a superb job of clarifying the motivations and mindset of America’s founding generation by starting with the massive pamphlet industry that expressed Enlightenment ideas and counter-ideas white hot at the time. A ...more | |
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| With strong competition in other disciplines of history, science, religion, and philosophy, this may be the best downloadable lecture series (of 36 lectures) I’ve ever heard from The Great Courses. Professor Goldman is an enthusiastic and remarkably ...more | |
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| One of the few Westerners fluent in Mandarin Chinese, author Michael Pillsbury was director of the Center on Chinese Strategy at the Hudson Institute and served in presidential administrations from Nixon to Obama. While Trump has vastly accelerated t ...more | |
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| Written in 2005, this book has gained some measure of popular appeal in answering what flushes from Trump’s mouth. Is it lies, is it delusion, is it senility, is it today’s script from Putin, or is it bullshit? While all the above surely play their p ...more | |
“It’s more than money now, Candice. It’s a memory maker…Hold this penny tight, close your eyes, and no matter where you are or when, you’ll find yourself back here with me in this very spot.”
― The Father
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“I asked him, ‘If I had died when I fell from that tree, would I wake up in the Kingdom, freed, like they say?’ And do you know what he told me, Miss Pancake? He said, ‘The Kingdom of the Father is upon the land, and men do not see it.”
― The Father
― The Father
“Joseph said, ‘Beware of luxury and too much comfort, John. Avoid crowds and their approval. These things corrupt character. Doing makes a man, not display.”
― The Father
― The Father
“I asked him, ‘If I had died when I fell from that tree, would I wake up in the Kingdom, freed, like they say?’ And do you know what he told me, Miss Pancake? He said, ‘The Kingdom of the Father is upon the land, and men do not see it.”
― The Father
― The Father
“If two pilgrims, which have wandered some few miles together, have a heart's grief when they are near to part, what must the sorrow be at the parting of two so loving friends and never-loathing lovers as the body and the soul?”
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“Every once in awhile the human race pauses in the job of botching its affairs and redeems itself by a noble work of the intellect.”
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“When an individual becomes over-involved in a topic of conversation, others are drawn from the talk to the talker. One man's eagerness is another man's alienation. Readiness to become over-involved is a form of tyranny practiced by children, prima donnas and lords, placing feelings above moral rules that should have made society safe for interaction.”
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