More From Ron Chernow
- "The Great Inflation of the 1970s destroyed faith in paper assets, because if you held a bond, suddenly the bond was worth much less money than it was before."
- "The public has lost faith in the ability of Social Security and Medicare to provide for old age. They’ve lost faith in the banking system and in conventional medical insurance."
- "I have developed a very strong partiality for the dead: they don’t talk back, they don’t sue, and they don’t have angry relatives."
More In History
- "Having a track record to live up to and the history of successes had become a hindrance. It becomes harder to break out of what people expect you to do."― Paul Simon
- "Now, when I hear that Christians are getting together in order to defend the people of Israel, of course it brings joy to my heart. And it simply says, look, people have learned from history."― Elie Wiesel
- "No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history."― William Hazlitt