He was a brilliant and courageous seafarer who put everything on the line in pursuit of a fantastic vision — "but as the voyages grew in complexity," Bergreen persuasively concludes, "he became progressively less rational and more extreme, until it seemed as if he lived more in his glorious illusions than in the grueling reality his voyages laid bare".
Gibney had just made a movie, "Client 9," about the plot — and there was a plot, Gibney persuasively concludes — to help bring down the former New York governor.
He concludes, persuasively, that Richard was wholly innocent of the deaths of the princes in the Tower.
Now a special advisory committee to Gov. Jon Corzine has concluded, persuasively, that the State Police have changed their ways, and the governor has asked for an end to federal monitoring.
After all, as David Hume argued so persuasively in his Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, if we take the design analogy seriously, it is just as reasonable to conclude that there are many designers, even many generations of designers, as it is to conclude that there is only one designer.
Host: He's surely right to conclude there will be no split since the last successful 3rd party was created in the 1850s and, as Frank Rich persuasively argues again in "New York" magazine this week, the GOP has always been comprised of a minority of secessionists, states rightsers, Randians, more recently birthers and will continue to do so, what their moniker and sway.
Liberalism is as relevant as ever, Fawcett concludes, passionately and persuasively.
"The King and I" thus concluded the Rodgers and Hammerstein experiment so persuasively that the "musical play" became the art's most virtuous form, as strong as Eugene O'Neill or Tennessee Williams, but with the added lyricism of music.
