Ralph G. Martin Quotes
Handshaking is friendly until your hands bleed. Confetti looks festive until you’re forced to spit out mouthfuls hurled directly into your face. Applause is wonderful until you can hardly hear yourself speak. A crush of screaming women is flattering until they tear your clothes.
Ralph G. Martin, Political Historian, Discussing campaigning, A Hero for Our Time, 1983
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Carter beat Kennedy in the Primaries bit lost to Ronald Reagan in the General Election.
Ralph G. Martin was an American journalist who authored or co-authored about thirty books, including popular biographies of recent historical figures, among which, Jennie, a two-volume (1969 and 1971) study of Winston Churchill's American mother, Lady Randolph Churchill, became the most prominent bestseller. Other successful tomes focused on British royal romance (Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson in 1974, as well as Prince Charles and Lady Diana in 1985) and on the Kennedy family (John F. Kennedy in 1983 and Joseph P. Kennedy in 1995).