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Many good writers, from Montaigne to Mencken, have been impolitic, colicky, or sassy.

— Mark Riebling Jesus, Jews and the Shoah: A Moral Reckoning by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen (2003)

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Winston Churchill led the life that many men would love to live. He survived 50 gunfights and drank 20,000 bottles of champagne.

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France showed as a nation less strength than Churchill showed as a man.

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When the Soviets faced these two leaders of shared purpose and conviction, they faced their worst-case scenario: a moral-political meta-power.

Freedom's Men: The Cold War Team of Pope John Paul II and Ronald Reagan (2005)

The flaw in the work is the flaw in the man.

His Long War: E Howard Hunt's American Spy (2007)

The history of the CIA brims with inquiries that cowed our spies and ruined their careers.

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