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Michael Pollan • How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
Even though Mike and Ron wanted the final say on most things, my dad really spent the bulk of his time building the infrastructure of the agency.
James Andrew Miller • Powerhouse: The Untold Story of Hollywood's Creative Artists Agency
True to his word, Perkins described for Miss Lemmon a typical workday: Tuesday, July 29, 1935. As always, Max said, he began with the heap of mail waiting on his desk.
A. Scott Berg • Max Perkins: Editor of Genius
AT&T’s savior was Theodore Vail, who became its president in 1907, just a few years after Millikan’s friend Frank Jewett joined the company.11 In appearance, Vail seemed almost a caricature of a Gilded Age executive: Rotund and jowly, with a white walrus mustache, round spectacles, and a sweep of silver hair, he carried forth a magisterial conf
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At a far pole from accountable public trust, or constitutional duty, Hoover corrupted the FBI to wage political war.