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The Moderate Voice
The Moderate Voice
The literature is rich with quotations about friends and friendship. One of my surprises when reading Gary Ginsberg’s best-selling First Friends, a fascinating book about “the powerful, unsung (and unelected) people who shaped our presidents,” was the dearth of quotations about friends or friendship.* But, on second thought and paraphrasing Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ginsberg’s book itself is a quotation. First Friends does not need quotations about friends or friendship because Ginsberg’s own powerful words about the intimate, lasting, frequently history-shaping relationships between nine president…