Television has changed how we choose our leaders. It elected Ronald Reagan and a host of Kennedy-look-alike congressmen with blow-dried hair and gleaming teeth. It destroyed Senator Joe McCarthy by showing him in action and it created Jerry Falwell.
Discount air fares, a car in every parking space and the interstate highway system have made every place accessible - and every place alike. - Ronald Steel
Discount air fares, a car in every parking space and the interstate highway system have made every place accessible - and every place alike.
- Ronald Steel
Politics as battle has given way to politics as spectacle. - Ronald Steel
Politics as battle has given way to politics as spectacle.
With a novelist's sense of drama and a historian's understanding of the social forces that shape our lives, Tom Gjelten has captured vividly -- throu… - Ronald Steel
With a novelist's sense of drama and a historian's understanding of the social forces that shape our lives, Tom Gjelten has captured vividly -- throu…
Television has changed how we choose our leaders. It elected Ronald Reagan and a host of Kennedy-look-alike congressmen with blow-dried hair and glea… - Ronald Steel
Television has changed how we choose our leaders. It elected Ronald Reagan and a host of Kennedy-look-alike congressmen with blow-dried hair and glea…
We falter from childhood amidst shames and fears, we move in closed spaces where stale tradition enervates, we grow hysterical over success and failu… - Ronald Steel
We falter from childhood amidst shames and fears, we move in closed spaces where stale tradition enervates, we grow hysterical over success and failu…
Children, for whom suburban life was supposed to make wholesome little Johns and Wendys, became the acid-dropping, classroom-burning hippies of the 1… - Ronald Steel
Children, for whom suburban life was supposed to make wholesome little Johns and Wendys, became the acid-dropping, classroom-burning hippies of the 1…
Television has made places look alike, and it has transformed the way we see. A whole generation of Americans, maybe two, has grown up looking at the… - Ronald Steel
Television has made places look alike, and it has transformed the way we see. A whole generation of Americans, maybe two, has grown up looking at the…
Heroes come along when you need them. - Ronald Steel
Heroes come along when you need them.
There is a curious relationship between a candidate and the reporters who cover him. It can be affected by small things like a competent press staff,… - Ronald Steel
There is a curious relationship between a candidate and the reporters who cover him. It can be affected by small things like a competent press staff,…
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