Euphemism Is A Human Device To Conceal

If The Decline Of Christianity Created The Modern Political Zealot - And His Crimes - So The Evaporation Of Religious Faith Among The Educated Left A Vacuum In The Minds Of Western Intellectuals Easily Filled By Secular Superstition. There Is No Other Explanation For The Credulity With Which Scientists, Accustomed To Evaluating Evidence, And Writers, Whose Whole Function Was To Study And Criticize Society, Accepted The Crudest Stalinist Propaganda At Its Face Value. They Needed To Believe; They Wanted To Be Duped.

Democracy Has Many Enemies, And The Terrorist Is Only One Of Them.

The Writer Learns To Write, In The Last Resort, Only By Writing. He Must Get Words Onto Paper Even If He Is Dissatisfied With Them.

This Book Is Dedicated To The People Of America--strong, Outspoken, Intense In Their Convictions, Sometimes Wrong-headed But Always Generous And Brave, With A Passion For Justice No Nation Has Ever Matched.

The Most Intimidating World Leader Was Lyndon Johnson, Who Became U.s. President When John Kennedy Was Assassinated. He Exulted In This Power And Liked To Inspire Fear.