Hard enough and tries hard enough and makes good decisions hes guaranteed to succeed. So hes always chastising himself for being too rash and making bad decisions. Here he is almost a new years eve kind of resolution determined to cultivate habits of determination, energy and industry, feel that i am in a bad situation and must use my utmost effort to keep ahead. So to him people are failing because there are Larger Forces at work. He ends this entry with saw land lady and told her i was not able to pay the rent. Something that i think if anybodys ever been in that position, particularly with two young children, you know thats not a very good situation to be in. Henry george is shaped a little bit by his own personal background but hes also shaped by the troubling duality of the gilded age. Gilded age is a great metaphor, right . A great term. Mark twain coins the term. It suggests that on one hand, things look golden. It is a golden age. And it is an amazing age of technology, of Weal
Comparings new book our current government with the one of the founders intended. They used language of the republic of greece and around and they warned of corruption. Corruption was not bribery or money under the table, it was putting special interests ahead of the common good and by that definition, washington today is a massively corrupt place. Tonight at 8 00 on cspan. Ladythink every first shouldnt do something to help. Should do something to help everything in the white house should be the best. Children are the same the world over, so are our films feelings about children. To divideuite enough people, so we should cherish the motions that unite us all. 1000cqueline kennedys days as first lady worker trait mother, and an icon. It was ultimately the tragic images of president kennedys funeral and assassination that cemented her in americansminds. Ladies will examine the private lives of the first ladies and their influence on the presidency. Tonight at 8 00 on American History tv