Example sentences for: brookhiser

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  • 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."

  • You would be very hard-pressed to find someone who could argue with a straight face, pace Richard Brookhiser on George W. Bush's future prospects, that it's precisely because Jack Welch isn't that smart that he's done such a good job at GE.

  • Presidents get into the most trouble not when they behave like intellectuals but when they delegate crucial brainwork to "intellectuals on tap," as Brookhiser calls them.

  • 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.


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