Things I Learned from Reading Biographies of the First Sixteen American Presidents
<p>Presidents are as sensitive and as petty as the rest of us. They treat other politicians badly, and when they are treated badly in return, they pout. American politics has, at times, been about serious policy differences on important issues. At other times, it has been driven by petty disputes between men who were simultaneously grandiose and lacking self-esteem.</p>
<p>This was depressing. If the men we elect to head our country can’t rise above bickering and self-pity, what chance have the rest of us?</p>
<p>This does not seem to have changed much.</p>
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