Example sentences for: brookhiser

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  • To which Brookhiser adds, "Don't carry a boom box either ." And the embarrassments pile up, one upon the other, and the patriotic reader wilts in his chair, and Washington ends up too ludicrous for words.

  • It has been argued, but not definitively proven, that this is a veiled reference to the scandalous affair between Beecher and Elizabeth Tilton, a member of his parish and the wife of his successor as editor of the Independent , for more on which see Richard Brookhiser's article The Happy Medium in the New York Times Book Review of March 29, 1998.

  • Supremely convinced of this point, Brookhiser has gone ahead and brought out his own little edition of Washington's rules under the title Rules of Civility: The 110 Precepts That Guided Our First President in War and Peace , slightly altered to eliminate the 18 th -century idiosyncrasies (a pity) and emended with small commentaries by Brookhiser himself, some of them pertaining to events in Washington's life, others solemnly applying of Washington's rules to circumstances of today.

  • In the New York Times Book Review , National Review senior editor Richard Brookhiser chides political journalists for failing to pursue Ruddy's many "unanswered questions" about the case.

  • On the Jim Lehrer NewsHour , Richard Brookhiser, who has written a book called Founding Father , said that what George Washington had done was to create "a new nation and a new people."


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