The Writer Learns To Write,

At Some Time In Their Careers, Most Good Historians Itch To Write A History Of The World, Endeavor To Discover What Makes Humanity The Most Destructive And Creative Of Species.

The Most Socially Subversive Institution Of Our Time Is The One-parent Family.

This Book Is Dedicated To The People Of America--strong, Outspoken, Intense In Their Convictions, Sometimes Wrong-headed But Always Generous And Brave, With A Passion For Justice No Nation Has Ever Matched.

There Are No Inevitabilities In History

It Is One Of The Many Ironies Of This Period That, At A Time When The Intelligentsia Were Excoriating Mellon For Tax-evasion, And Contrasting The Smooth-running Soviet Planned Economy With The Breakdown In America, He Was Secretly Exploiting The Frantic Necessities Of The Soviet Leaders To Form The Basis Of One Of America's Most Splendid Public Collections