In every thriller written about Washington, particularly after 9/11, there are good guys and there are bad guys, and there's no gray area at all.
The mastery of the turn is the story of how aviation became practical as a means of transportation. It is the story of how the world became small.
We, to some degree, are like what we are because we inherited certain things from the Greeks and the Romans. One of them that's so striking is the whole area of politics.

