My neck is too arthritic to snap around. The big shift in my perspective that happened in the writing process, however, was the paramount importance of the "West" epitomized by Cincinnati.
Charles R. MorrisThe Transcontinental Railroad Act is the first step in creating a continental common market.
Charles R. MorrisI've been among their critics [MBA programs]. Much of what I've seen in business schools is quite non-rigorous. Anecdotal histories are stretched to illustrate favored slogans. Evidence of their effectiveness is similarly anecdotal.
Charles R. MorrisCredit is the air that financial markets breathe, and when the air is poisoned, there's no place to hide.
Charles R. MorrisI find her [Frances Trollope] simply delightful, even in her prejudices and cantankerousness. It is a gift to an author to find a funny, wry, perceptive contemporary observer to whom the subject matter seems almost as different and alien, and requiring as much struggling to understand, as it did to me.
Charles R. Morris