“Having recorded his first album, 'Tapestry,' in 1969, in Berkeley, Cal...” — Douglas Brinkley Quote

“Having recorded his first album, 'Tapestry,' in 1969, in Berkeley, California, during the student riots, McLean, a native New Yorker, became a kind of weather vane for what he called the 'generation lost in space.'”

“One of the things I learned in editing 'The Reagan Diaries' is to never say what Reagan would do, because he surprised people.”

“For years, I longed to hear Armstrong describe what it was like to contemplate Earth from 238,900 miles away. Former Space Center director George Abbey once told me that many NASA astronauts felt that looking at Earth was akin to a religious experience.”

“I went to UC Berkeley. I graduated in 1976, immediately moved to L.A. with a degree in English - which did no more for you then than it does for you now - then sold real estate and did theater for nine years.”

“When I was a lecturer at UC Berkeley, I wrote a book about monsters.”

“At the University of California at Berkeley, my interests broadened from military history to diplomatic history and other disciplines.”