One of the things I learned in editing ‘The Reagan Diaries’ is to never say what Reagan would do, because he surprised people. Douglas Brinkley Read Quote
I was stunned to find out there had never been a serious, scholarly biography ever written on Rosa Parks. Douglas Brinkley Read Quote
Her continuity – you know, if you connect Harriet Tubman, who died in 1913, to Rosa Parks, born in 1913, you get this extraordinary spectrum of the African-American experience. Douglas Brinkley Read Quote
I’m not a historian who thinks Confederate memorials should be boarded up. Douglas Brinkley Read Quote
One thing ‘not right’ on the 50th anniversary of the Selma marches is the sad fact that the Edmund Pettus Bridge hasn’t been renamed the John Lewis Bridge. Douglas Brinkley Read Quote
In Austin, the eco-capital of Texas, residents tend to favor native plants and wildflowers to the sculpted lawns of the Palm Springs variety. Douglas Brinkley Read Quote
Unfortunately, one of the biggest misperceptions the American public harbors is that Katrina was a week-long catastrophe. In truth, it’s better to view it as an era. Douglas Brinkley Read Quote
The answer to New Orleans’s levee woes is painfully obvious: money and willpower. Douglas Brinkley Read Quote
