The historian #GarryWills, in an essay on Phillip Knightley’s 1975 book about wartime journalism, “The First Casualty,” wrote, “A #liberaldemocracy submits to #propaganda more readily than a #totalitarian state. #Self‐censorship is always more effective than #bureaucratic #censorship.”

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What happens when a classics scholar takes a look at leadership – and why you should care. We review #GarryWills terrific #CertainTrumpets: https://wp.me/P23AlC-fX #leadership #business

This is the highest art, which conceals itself.
-- Garry Wills (Lincoln at Gettysburg)

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What does a #leader need more than determination, a goal, priorities and focus? A leader needs followers. #GarryWills tells you how they get them. We review #CertainTrumpets: https://wp.me/P23AlC-fX #leadership #business
Certain Trumpets: The Call of Leaders

This is a book on leadership unlike any other you’ve read, and for that reason alone it is worth reading. For those unfamiliar with the author, Garry Wills, an emeritus professor at Northwestern Un…

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This is the highest art, which conceals itself.
-- Garry Wills (Lincoln at Gettysburg)

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This is the highest art, which conceals itself.
-- Garry Wills (Lincoln at Gettysburg)

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What has crippled our political discourse is a long-indurated habit of demanding from government qualities that should be sought, primarily, in other aspects of our social life. Government plays a limited role in human activity.... It cannot be the family, the church, the local club, the private intellectual circle.... When government does not show all the human virtues, it is rejected as contributing to none of them. That asks too much of government, as a preliminary to expecting nothing of it. This...is a tradition that belittles America, that asks us to love our country by hating our government, that turns our founding fathers into unfounders, that glamorizes frontier settlers in order to demean what they settled, that obliges us to despise the very people we vote for. Our country, our founders, our representatives deserve better. So do we, who sustain them all.
-- Garry Wills

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#CurrentlyListening to a fascinating discussion of #GarryWills' "Bomb Power: The Modern Presidency and the National Security State" via #DissentMagazine's "Know Your Enemy" #Podcast 💣 💥 🤯 cc: @bookstodon #USPol #ColdWar #History #Histodon https://know-your-enemy-1682b684.simplecast.com/episodes/bomb-power-w-erik-baker
Bomb Power (w/ Erik Baker) | Know Your Enemy

Matt and Sam welcome historian Erik Baker onto the podcast to discuss Garry Wills's blistering critique of the national security state and unaccountable presidential power in his 2010 book, Bomb Power.

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