The way we live history is not the way historians tell history. Our lives are messy and chaotic and bewildering. — David Grann Copy Share Image
There's a tendency when we write history to do it with the power of hindsight and then assume almost god-like knowledge that… — David Grann Copy Share Image
Early in my career I was much more confident in the almost omniscient powers of a reporter, because you could find anything… — David Grann Copy Share Image
In Brazil, the history of the interaction between blancos and indios - whites and Indians - often reads like an extended epitaph.… — David Grann Copy Share Image
“It was the greatest loss of life in the history of the British military, and many in the West began to portray… — David Grann Copy Share Image
“History is a merciless judge. It lays bare our tragic blunders and foolish missteps and exposes our most intimate secrets, wielding the… — David Grann Copy Share Image
When criminals go free, the hope is that history will come in and provide some level of justice. It won't correct the… — David Grann Copy Share Image
A lot of the stories I write about have an element of mystery. They're crime stories or conspiracy stories or quests. They… — David Grann Copy Share Image
“As the historian Richard Gid Powers has noted, J. Edgar Hoover found in Progressivism an approach that reflected his own obsession with… — David Grann Copy Share Image
“The historian Burns once wrote, “To believe that the Osages survived intact from their ordeal is a delusion of the mind. What… — David Grann Copy Share Image
I do think that in many cases, where crimes have been covered up and perpetrators can escape justice, history can provide some… — David Grann Copy Share Image
“To believe that the Osages survived intact from their ordeal is a delusion of the mind. What has been possible to salvage has been… — David Grann Copy Share
“Over the next two decades, the Osage were forced to cede nearly a hundred million acres of their ancestral land, ultimately finding refuge in… — David Grann Copy Share
“Only in the mid-nineteenth century, after the growth of industrial cities and a rash of urban riots—after dread of the so-called dangerous classes surpassed… — David Grann Copy Share
“Emmett White became a firm, even unyielding, sheriff. Still, he showed remarkable consideration toward the people in his custody and insisted on making arrests… — David Grann Copy Share
My mother doesn't need much sleep. At any hour of the night, you'd wake up, and she'd be reading. She'd read five, six books… — David Grann Copy Share
The way we live history is not the way historians tell history. Our lives are messy and chaotic and bewildering. — David Grann Copy Share
“Fawcett, who had always found refuge in the natural world, no longer recognized the wilderness of bombed-out villages, denuded trees, craters, and sunbaked skeletons.… — David Grann Copy Share
“Does God think that, because it is raining, I am not going to destroy the world? - Lope de Aguirre after going mad in… — David Grann Copy Share
“In 1804, a delegation of Osage chiefs met with Jefferson at the White House. He told the navy secretary that the Osage, whose warriors… — David Grann Copy Share
“Instead, the terrain looked like Nebraska—perpetual plains that faded into the horizon. When I asked Taukane where the forest was, he said, simply, “Gone.” — David Grann Copy Share
I covered Congress, and everyone always wanted me to be a political reporter. — David Grann Copy Share
For a while, when I got out of college, I tried to write fiction. I'd grown up more around novelists, and my initial attraction… — David Grann Copy Share
One of the nice things about 'The New Yorker' is they let you write stories that sometimes end up almost half a book. — David Grann Copy Share
