American Sketches
American Sketches: Great Leaders, Creative Thinkers, and Heroes of a Hurricane
As a journalist, I discovered that there are a lot of smart people in this world. Indeed, they are a dime a dozen, and often they don’t amount to much. What makes someone special is imagination or creativity, the ability to make a mental leap and see things differently.
Journalists and writers are particularly drawn, I think, to that mix of engagement and detachment.
grayed into elder statesmen,
vinegary pragmatism.
Problems are meant to be solved, usually with a blend of firmness and negotiability that is devoid of emotion, ideology, or sentimentality.
“On a recent trip to Italy,” he says, “I took the new Stalin biography, a book about Hewlett-Packard, Seven Summits [a mountaineering book by Dick Bass and the late Disney president Frank Wells], and a Wallace Stegner novel.” He’s also a fan of Philip Roth’s, John Irving’s, Ernest J. Gaines’s, and David Halberstam’s, but his all-time favorite novels are the schoolboy standards The Catcher in the Rye, The Great Gatsby, and A Separate Peace.
ensuring that every schoolchild has a personal computer.
biotechnology revolution
capitalism, having defeated the twin foes of fascism and communism, is likely to face three others.
tribalism,
The second challenge will be from fundamentalism.
radical environmentalism
Among the few things certain about the
next century are that it will be wired, networked, and global.
social theology
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