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...Jefferson, a former Pulitzer Prize-winning critic for the New York Times, includes sharp descriptions of postwar black American performers such as Lena Horne, Dorothy Dandridge and Sammy Davis Jr, who prized...
...Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr were guests – a nearby street is named after Sinatra – while Bing Crosby and Harpo Marx each owned estates nearby....
...Moore, Jr., former United States Assistant Secretary of Commerce Bill Richardson, Governor of New Mexico, former US Ambassador to the UN and Energy Secretary Richard Schiff, Actor Holland Laurens Jan...
...Outside the front entrance, a star-shaped brass plaque nestles where Jefferson Davis took the oath of his short-lived office on February 18 1861....
...“I wouldn’t take the Tea Party arguments seriously,” says Ronald Dworkin, a leading constitutional scholar at New York University. “There is no scholarship behind them....
...They are as different from the Bushes - Yankees masquerading as Texans - as Jefferson and Jackson are from the Clintons, husband and wife. FDR belonged to an America that is extinct today....
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