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Dianne Feinstein Goes Her Own Way
On a sparkling June morning 24 years ago, Dianne Feinstein, ’55, stood before a crowd in Stanford Stadium as the featured speaker at the university’s 102nd Commencement. Feinstein had served in the U.S. Senate for less than a year, and she was already weary of Washington’s tribalism. “I have been astonished by the primacy of partisanship — by the willingness, even when the nation is undeniably in trouble, to treat the great issues as occasions to score small points or attract a few voters,” she said. Feinstein chastised politicians of both parties. “I reject the view,” she said, “that the next election will reward those who simply oppose.”
Those remarks seemed newly resonant when I met Feinstein this summer, four months into the presidency of Donald Trump. Feinstein’s suite is on the third floor of the Hart Senate Office Building, overlooking the massive steel Alexander Calder sculpture Mountains and Clouds. On the walls of the reception area hang seven framed copies of laws authored by Feinstein, including her proudest legislative achievement, the 1994 ban on assault weapons.
Feinstein greets me and sits down at a round table in the center of her office. In the wake of the 2016 election, the country is vastly more divided than when s
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Tear Down This Wall
“Timely and insightful. . . Ratnesar’s book deftly explores the history of those famous words and highlights Ronald Reagan’s clarity of vision and commitment to the American ideal.” –Condoleezza Rice
“Romesh Ratnesar has produced a riveting account of one of the greatest speeches in modern times, which would have been enough. But along the way he has also written a brilliant and incisive history of the end of the Reagan Presidency and the Cold War. Tear Down this Wall affirms the power of words.”
--David Grann, Author of The Lost City of Z
“Fast-moving and splendidly written. . . a remarkable re-creation of the last days of the Soviet empire, with East Germany as the culmination of the Marxist dialectic, and the wall the perfect symbol for that strange alternate universe.”
–John R. Coyne, Jr., Washington Times
“Romesh Ratnesar has told the story with narrative verve, brilliant political and personal insight, and a combination of concision and pithiness worthy of the Great Communicator himself.”
--Strobe Talbott, author of The Great Experiment: Ancient Empires, Modern States, and the Quest for a Global Nation
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