“No conflict no story”

“Posthuman. It was a word from advertising copy, breathless and empty, and all hed ever thought it really meant was that the people using it had a limited imagination about what exactly humans were ...”

“Doing business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the dark. You know what you are doing but nobody else does.”

“All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news.”

“In the years that followed the Harrison campaign, many candidatesfrom Colonel James 'Young Hickory' Polk in 1844 to Lieutenant John Kerry in 2004had their 'humble origins' and/or 'war leadership' h...”

“Efforts by Democrats to portray Jackson as 'manly' and for the 'common man' were apparently more effective than were the campaign tactics of Adamss supporters, who attempted to depict Jackson as vi...”

“Fillmore lost his partys nomination the next year to yet another military hero, General Winfield 'Old Fuss and Feathers' Scott, an anti-slavery candidate who then lost the election to General Frank...”