180 Quotes by Jill Lepore

Disruptive innovation is competitive strategy for an age seized by terror.

'Doctor Who' is, unavoidably, a product of mid-twentieth-century debates about Britain's role in the world as its empire unravelled.

'Doctor Who' is the most original science-fiction television series ever made. It is also one of the longest-running television shows of all time.

'Doctor Who' began as family television: a show that kids and their parents and grandparents can all watch, maybe even together, on the sofa.

An ordinary life used to look something like this: born into a growing family, you help rear your siblings, have the first of your own half-dozen or even dozen children soon after you're grown, and die before your youngest has left home.

Few American presidents have been unhappier or lonelier in office than Woodrow Wilson.

The very first television ad targeted to women was produced by the Eisenhower-Nixon campaign in 1956. It includes footage of a woman supervising her children doing their homework at the kitchen table.

The stories about epidemics that are told in the American press - their plots and tropes - date to the nineteen-twenties, when modern research science, science journalism, and science fiction were born.

Scientific management promised to replace rules of thumb with accurate measurements.