Ronald Steel
Ronald Steel
Ronald Lewis Steelis an award-winning American writer, historian, and professor. He is the author of the definitive biography of Walter Lippmann...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth25 March 1931
CountryUnited States of America
powerful drama political
With a novelist's sense of drama and a historian's understanding of the social forces that shape our lives, Tom Gjelten has captured vividly -- through the chronicle of a powerful family's fortunes -- one of the great political dramas of our time.
good overall prepare tough
It's tough because you really can't prepare for how they play, but I think overall we did a good job.
certainly elder foreign sleeve tale though
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.
equipped experience forever intelligence throws time
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.
blow hair leader
Television has changed how we choose our leaders. It elected Ronald Reagan and a host of Kennedy-look-alike congressmen with blow-dried hair and gleaming teeth. It destroyed Senator Joe McCarthy by showing him in action and it created Jerry Falwell.
air space car
Discount air fares, a car in every parking space and the interstate highway system have made every place accessible - and every place alike.
children hippie burning
Children, for whom suburban life was supposed to make wholesome little Johns and Wendys, became the acid-dropping, classroom-burning hippies of the 1960s.
moving space childhood
We falter from childhood amidst shames and fears, we move in closed spaces where stale tradition enervates, we grow hysterical over success and failure, and so by surrounding instinct with terror, we prepare the soul for weakness.
relationship sandwiches enough
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.
battle way politics
Politics as battle has given way to politics as spectacle.
two generations looks
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.
hero needs
Heroes come along when you need them.