Michael Beschloss

Oftentimes during the period in which conventions really did business, you had situations where the delegates were divided and you would have ballot after ballot before there was a final nominee.

The Founding Fathers would be sorry to see that America had become so divided and factionalized.

From the beginning of the presidential nominating conventions in the 1830's really through the 1950's, you had conventions that actually did real business.

The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul.

The attempted assassinations against me were not accidental.

My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant.