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One of the great lessons I learned about historical fiction from writing 'Loving Frank' is that you don't try to disguise what people did; my approach was to try to understand the characters and why they did what they did.


Nancy Horan

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NANCY PELOSI The American dream is about freedom.
NANCY PELOSI Let's just do what is right for the American people. And those of us who are involved in politic...
NANCY PELOSI If you don't vote, you don't count.
NANCY PELOSI Every month that we do not have an economic recovery package 500 million Americans lose their jobs.
NANCY PELOSI The impact of climate change is a tremendous risk to the security and well-being of our countries.
NANCY PELOSI Raising the minimum wage is the right thing to do, but it's a popular thing to do as well.
NANCY PELOSI Being the first woman speaker and breaking the marble ceiling is pretty important. Now it's time...
NANCY PELOSI The president led us into the Iraq war on the basis of unproven assertions without evidence; he embr...
NANCY PELOSI America will be far safer if we reduce the chances of a terrorist attack in one of our cities than i...
NANCY PELOSI We have so much room for improvement. Every aspect of our lives must be subjected to an inventory......
NANCY PELOSI Public education grants secular worldviews an exclusive monopoly in the classroom.
NANCY PEARCEY The Tea Party has imparted political energy to common-sense American constitutionalism.
NANCY PEARCEY Urban areas tend to attract members of the 'knowledge class' - people who work with ideas, d...
NANCY PEARCEY The defense of marriage is the defense of freedom. Neither of which is obsolete.
NANCY PEARCEY Many journalists are influenced by a myopic multiculturalism that is suspicious of anything Western,...
NANCY PEARCEY The human mind inherently seeks intelligible order. Thus the conviction that such an order exists to...
NANCY PEARCEY My aim in homeschooling is to give my children the ability to be an adult learner, a skill set that ...
NANCY PEARCEY Pro-lifers have long been castigated for bringing private values into the public square. But actuall...
NANCY PEARCEY Indigenous people have discovered that Christianity is not inherently Western but universal - 't...
NANCY PEARCEY Homeschoolers are the ultimate do-it-yourselfers. They are self-motivated and self-directed, indepen...
NANCY PEARCEY America is a knowledge-based society, where information counts as much as material resources. Theref...
NANCY PEARCEY Schools ought to teach students to challenge secular ideologies masquerading as science in the class...
NANCY PEARCEY If pro-abortionists want to commit intellectual suicide and deny scientific facts, that's their ...
NANCY PEARCEY The word 'tolerance' once meant we all have the right to argue rationally for our deepest co...
NANCY PEARCEY Modern secular thought has its own dualism: It treats only the physical world as knowable and testab...
NANCY PEARCEY The White House should always be a friend to American freedom.
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