The Second World War took place not so much because no one won the First, but because the Versailles Treaty did not acknowledge this truth.

This book is dedicated to the people of America--strong, outspoken, intense in their convictions, sometimes wrong-headed but always generous and brave, with a passion for justice no nation has ever matched.

In the past, the U.S. has shown its capacity to reinvent its gifts for leadership. During the 1970s, in the aftermath of the Nixon abdication and the Ford and Carter presidencies, the whole nation peered into the abyss, was horrified by what it saw and elected Ronald Reagan as president, which began a national resurgence.

The most evil person I ever met was a toss-up between Pablo Picasso and the publisher-crook Robert Maxwell.

In 1924 Mao took a Chinese friend, newly arrived from Europe, to see the notorious sign in the Shanghai park, 'Chinese and Dogs Not Allowed'.

As a child I found railroad stations exciting, mysterious, and even beautiful, as indeed they often were.

Global warming, like Marxism, is a political theory of actions, demanding compliance with its rules.