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"America is a land of wonders, in which everything is in constant motion and every change seems an improvement.… No natural boundary seems to be set to the efforts of man; and in his eyes what is not yet done is only what he has not yet attempted to do"—Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Jon Winokur: Add a description of this character.
- Gore Vidal
- Lyndon B. Johnson
- Adlai Stevenson
- Laurence J. Peter Peter
- John F. Kennedy
- Mark Twain
- Ronald Reagan
- Robert Byrne
- Woodrow Wilson
- Evan Esar
- George Bush
- Henry Miller
- Richard M. Nixon
- H. L. Mencken
- John Updike
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Henry Kissinger
- Norman Mailer
- Robert Andrews
- P. J.
- Abby Adams
- James Thurber
- Colin Jarman
- George W. Bush
- Gertrude Stein
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- George F. Will
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Harry S Truman
- H. Auden
- Robert I. Fitzhenry
- Henry James
- John Kenneth Galbraith
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Will Rogers
- Joan Didion
- Jimmy Carter
- Edmund Wilson
- Henry O. Dormann
- Fred Metcalf
- Daniel J. Boorstin
- James B. Reston
- D. H. Lawrence
- Russell Baker
- Alistair Cooke
Setting & Locations edit
- North America
- New York City
- United States
- Europe
- Hollywood
- Chicago
- Washington
- California
- Vietnam
- London
- New England
- White House
- Texas
- Philadelphia
- Paris
- Canada
- San Francisco
- Los Angeles
- France
- Boston
- Florence
- Russia
- Usa
- Iowa
- Mississippi
- New Jersey
- Florida
- Kansas
- Britain
- Rome
- Cuba
- Germany
- South Carolina
- Miami
- Missouri
- New Orleans
- Erica Jong
- William Manchester
- Heaven
- New Republic
- Bethlehem
- North Dakota
- Mexico
- Wall Street
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 973
Subjects edit
- Books › Reference › Encyclopedias › History
- Books › History › Americas › United States
- Books › Reference › Quotations
- Books › Reference › Dictionaries & Thesauruses
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