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Ashcroft lost that race but got a break in 1975, when he was named an assistant state attorney general under John Danforth. Ashcroft found himself working in a 16-ft. by 16-ft. office in Jefferson City alongside another Danforth protege whose career was on the rise: Clarence Thomas. The...
So you fought a long and painful battle to become President of the U.S., and it will soon, at last, be Inauguration Day. The Bible your dad used is back for the swearing in, 16,000 yellow roses, 500 lbs. of peach cobbler, tons of fireworks and Ricky Martin are...
Ashcroft grew up in rural Springfield, Mo., a green and rolling part of the state that has voted Republican since the Civil War. Back when Missouri sent 10 Democrats to Congress, Springfield was the lone Republican holdout. It was free-labor, antiunion territory, with antislave, Bible-belt, mountain people. Young...
In its first half-century, Pentecostalism understood itself as the faith from across the tracks. Its members were poor, and its emotiveness put off some other conservative Christians. A millennial faith that believed the Second Coming was imminent, it frowned on political participation. "Why would someone meddle in this fallen...
As he stood on the Capitol steps on Saturday, George W. Bush was already at work doing just that. Simply by taking the oath of office, he believes, he performed his first symbolic act in the rollback of Clintonism. At nearly every campaign stop for 18 months, Bush promised that...