John Barth Quotes
This is an exciting time. A new chapter in our history.
This brilliant statement to lift morale was skillfully designed not to make the polulation too optimistic because there was much bad news ahead. And the Battle of Egypt did not tip the balance of military power. But it was a win for the allies, and the first significant one.
At the time, there were no major issues In contention for the nation, and bipartisanship became quite easy. That would change markedly in the following decades when the new questions came forward from reformers like Theodore Roosevelt and muckraking journalists. The new questions had to do with monopolies, trusts, corporate power, regulation, corruption and political machines.
Behind George Washington's presidential chair there was artwork that included a sun.
John Simmons Barth is an American writer who is best known for his postmodernist and metafictional fiction.
