This is the story of two men of how they achieved great power and how through their implacable rivalry they destroyed each other, writes Arthur Quinn. Anticipating California s admission to the union, both came to the state in 1849 seeking a seat in the U.S. Senate. William McKendree Gwin, an aristocratic Southerner, and David Broderick, a veteran of the bare-knuckle politics of New York, struggled for control of California s Democratic Party during the 1850s. Their feud, personal as well as political, ended in violent death for one and disgrace for the other."
This is the story of two men of how they achieved great power and how through their implacable rivalry they destroyed each other, writes Arthur Quinn....
Writing is not like chemical engineering. The figures of speech should not be learned the same way as the periodic table of elements. This is because figures of speech are not about hypothetical structures in things, but about real potentialities within language and within ourselves. The "figurings" of speech reveal the apparently limitless plasticity of language itself. We are inescapably confronted with the intoxicating possibility that we can make language do for us almost anything we want. Or at least a Shakespeare can. The figures of speech help to see how he does it, and how we might....
Writing is not like chemical engineering. The figures of speech should not be learned the same way as the periodic table of elements. This is because ...
