“William Graebner’s brilliant analysis of America’s struggles over the meaning of Patty Hearst gives us not only new perspectives on the 1970s.”

A Nation of Outsiders is smart, insightful, and politically astute. Grace Hale’s analysis of the ‘romance of the outsider’ is necessary reading for anyone who has ever wondered about the meaning of our national obsession with ‘authenticity.

As well as for anyone who might be curious about what Jerry Falwell and Holden Caulfield have in common.

Doctors generally refused to prescribe the pill to women who were not married; the Supreme Court did not rule this practice unconstitutional until 1972.

The birth control pill, to a great degree, made possible the (hetero)sexual revolution. Yet those who developed oral contraceptives did not intend their work to promote what the majority of Americans at the time called “promiscuity.”

When it comes to two of the big social earthquakes in the last fifty years – which are the gay movement and the women’s movement – I think there is a direct line from Kinsey to those.

I can take $15,000 a year and raise kids on that. Later, they’ll figure out I’ve got millions, but hopefully they’ll have the values to say, ‘So what?

[When her daughter suggested the President refer in his conversation with foreign dignitaries about lawn care to ‘fertilizer’ instead of to ‘manure’:] But remember, it took me almost thirty years to get him to call it manure.

I started working on a line of clothes last year, but right now we’re kind of at a standstill.

One of the biggest obstacles I’ve overcome in my life was thinking I didn’t deserve to be successful.

My wife and I work out together almost every day. It’s just a great way to spend time together. We’re going to run a marathon together later this year, and that’s one more goal that we’ll accomplish as husband and wife.

So far the earth has warmed about a degree Fahrenheit globally averaged. That doesn’t seem like an enormous amount but it’s unlike what we would have expected twenty years ago.

To be a consistent winner means preparing not just one day, one month or even one year – but for a lifetime.