Children, for whom suburban life was supposed to make wholesome little Johns and Wendys, became the acid-dropping, classroom-burning hippies of the 1960s.
"Ronald Lewis Steel" is an award-winning United States/American writer, historian, and professor. He is the author of the definitive biography of Walter Lippmann.
More Ronald Steel on Wikipedia.He has not yet become an elder statesman, though his foreign policy credentials are considerable, but he is certainly our ancient mariner, forever tugging at our sleeve to let him tell his tale of what really happened.
Discount air fares, a car in every parking space and the interstate highway system have made every place accessible - and every place alike.
Increasingly, I realized that I could not merely tell his story. Rather, I would have to tell my story about him.
[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, enough seats, sandwiches and briefings and the ability to understand deadlines.
He forever perplexes and annoys. Every time you think he is about to show the statesmanship for which his intelligence and experience have equipped him, he throws a spitball.
Politics as battle has given way to politics as spectacle.
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 world through a lens.
As with the Arthurian tale it evokes.
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