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...Twelve US presidents — Washington, Jefferson and Clinton among them — lost fathers early in life....
...It was a guy named Henry Clay in both cases, who ultimately took matters into his own hands, leaving the two squabbling parties out of it....
...and cultural thought which produced works such as Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations (1776) and when, for science, “no place in the world can pretend to a competition with Edinburgh”, according to Thomas Jefferson...
...Monetary policy US Federal Reserve governor Philip Jefferson will deliver a virtual speech on inflation in the US....
...“Our commitment to Japan continues to go up, not only in private equity but in real estate, infrastructure and our credit business,” KKR’s chief investment officer Henry McVey told the FT....
...Jefferson, if confirmed, would become the fourth black man. Jefferson, who previously ran the economics department at Swarthmore College, has written extensively on poverty and economic growth....
...Henry Mance FT CHIEF FEATUREs WRITER Through a Vet’s Eyes, by award-winning British vet Sean Wensley, is an enlightening guide to how scientists get inside the minds of other animals, with insights from...
...Letter in response to this article: Nixon was airbrushed from an LA freeway / From Henry D Fetter, Los Angeles, CA, US...
...(FT) Video of the day Russia’s cabbage inflation The FT’s Moscow bureau chief Henry Foy explains how the price of the humble cruciferous vegetable reflects Russia’s economic landscape. (FT)...
...Ever downward went the price of steel, oil, and with Henry Ford’s assembly line, the price of mobility....
...Thomas Jefferson, often described as one the most enlightened of American thinkers, thought black people smelled worse than whites, required less sleep, had comparably good memories, but couldn’t master...
...Even before the French essayist Henry de Montherlant said that “happiness writes white” — that joy never works as prose — great literature has been equated with morbidity of subject matter and heaviness...
...Negroland: A Memoir, by Margo Jefferson, Granta RRP£12.99/Pantheon, RRP$25 Jefferson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning critic, grew up in Chicago where, as the daughter of a paediatrician and a socialite, she was...
...And what to do about statues of Thomas Jefferson, owner of numerous slaves?...
...The action opens, as does Henry V, with an appeal from the chorus for dramatic licence: “We have to ask you to be gender-blind, colour-blind, age-blind, shape-blind, but in all other ways perceptive,” they...
...The Tory government had already been embarrassed by Henry Crabb Robinson’s reporting from Spain....
...His other profession adds to his presidential stature, as it did with Jefferson....
...It’s a reliquary for secular saints (Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Abraham Lincoln, Sigmund Freud) and an unacknowledged tribute to a distinguished lineage of bisexual women (Georgia O’Keeffe...
...He was rehearsing Henry V and asked if I would reconsider, as the war was coming to an end. He said he was just about to put the tickets and programmes to print.”...
...The major part of the work was unveiled in May alongside the acclaimed chronological rehang of the works in the Tate collection and includes an entirely new gallery space dedicated to Henry Moore....
...Alexander Hamilton and the federalists, moreover, struggled to overcome the parochialism of the states’ rights crowd, including such heroes of the revolution as Patrick Henry and Thomas Jefferson, to whom...
...His hates, more vividly expressed than his admirations, included Mother Teresa of Calcutta and Henry Kissinger, the former US secretary of state....
...One of the most grandiloquent, the Lincoln Memorial – designed by Henry Bacon and dedicated in 1922 – in Washington DC, is dominated by the martyred president, literally colossal in stature but also in the...
...Though the learning is worn lightly, few would challenge Losurdo’s mastery of the classic texts, whether from Jeremy Bentham, Edmund Burke, John C Calhoun, Benjamin Franklin, David Hume, Thomas Jefferson...
...The patron saint of American environmentalism, Henry David Thoreau, was another antiurbanite....
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