"[2007 George Washington Book Prize winner Charles] Rappleye said he was perfectly surprised by the prize. 'I think that is to their credit,' he said. 'I'm not a well-known author. There were a lot of big names in the field and they sifted through it and found my book.'"
—"Biographer Wins Washington Prize for Book on Slave Trade," the Washington Post, May 24, 2007
"With few modern examples of successful republics to inspire America's founders, ancient Rome provided an indispensable role model... The question was: could America's republican aspirations flourish in harmony with its imperial ambitions? The two were not necessarily wholly incompatible. After all, Rome's dominions had spanned the Mediterranean even while it was still ruled by a senate. And the United States did not need to look overseas for territories to conquer: an entire continent stretched westward."
—Hodson Trust-Griswold Director of the C.V. Starr Center Adam Goodheart, writing "Wrapped in the Star-Spangled Toga" The New York Times, July 6, 2007
"Thus did Lincoln—among the most radical and influential leaders in the history of civilization—explicitly concede the imperfection of his own cause and his own country.... Americans, he said, were God's 'almost chosen people.' Language such as this—at once muscular and enigmatic, working both as rhetoric and poetry—is at the core of Lincoln's real legacy."
— Rose O'Neill Literary House Director Joshua Wolf Shenk, reviewing Andrew Ferguson's Land of Lincoln in The New York Times, July 8, 2007
"High-quality pre-K, whether it serves low-income children or all children, pays for itself over time, making it an exceptionally sound public investment... Reducing the need for public expenditures on education, criminal justice and welfare and increasing tax revenue eventually outweighs the costs of pre-K."
—Professor of Economics Robert G. Lynch, writing "The Benefits and Limitations of Preschool," the Washington Post, August 27, 2007
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