Tony Horwitz

Even aimless journeys have a purpose.

— Tony Horwitz

“Hung be the Heavens in Scarlet”

— Tony Horwitz

“My life has been of but little worth mostly fild [sic] up with vanity.”

— Tony Horwitz

There are people one knows and people one doesn't. One shouldn't cheapen the former by feigning intimacy with the latter.

— Tony Horwitz

“The best you can do is catch an echo of the man. You can never reach out and touch him.”

— Tony Horwitz

“It is difficult to gaze in awe at the wonders of ancient Egypt with modern Egypt tugging so insistently at your sleeve.”

— Tony Horwitz

“You asked how I'd define prejudice. That's it. Making assumptions about people you've never met.”

— Tony Horwitz

“Anything you got to do with your own kind in secret, something's wrong with it. You feel bad about it inside.”

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“We were raised Methodists,” Sue said. “But we converted to the Confederacy. There wasn’t time for both.” “War is hell,” Ed deadpanned.…

— Tony Horwitz

“Cook,” the historian Bernard Smith speculates, “increasingly realised that wherever he went he was spreading the curses much more liberally than the…

— Tony Horwitz

“The way I see it," King said, "your great-grandfather fought and died because he believed my great-grandfather should stay a slave. I'm…

— Tony Horwitz

I couldn't think of another city in the world that lined its streets with stone leviathans honoring failed rebels against the state.

— Tony Horwitz

I am an agnostic on most matters of faith, but on the subjects of maps I have always been a true believer.…

— Tony Horwitz

During a mock battle attended by President Warren Harding in 1921, Marine Corps General Smedley D. Butler exhumed the arm [of Stonewall…

— Tony Horwitz

“Cook, judging from his journals, was not a pious man. A product of the eighteenth century Enlightenment, he valued reason above all…

— Tony Horwitz

“I came here from Kansas,” he announced to his captive. “This is a slave state. I want to free all the Negroes…

— Tony Horwitz

“The first thing you notice, coming to Israel from the Arab world, is that you have left the most courteous region of…

— Tony Horwitz

The past was a consumable, subject to the national preference for familiar products. And history, in America, is a dish best served…

— Tony Horwitz

“At one stop in New Zealand, an Englishman bartered for sex. He was presented with a boy; when he complained, he was…

— Tony Horwitz

“I asked him if he thought “there” was better than “here.” “Not better,” he said. “I mean, my great-great-grandpap got his leg…

— Tony Horwitz

“Finally, in the midst of the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln proclaimed the last Thursday of November 1863 as Thanksgiving: a day to…

— Tony Horwitz

“When the singing ended, I chatted with others in my pew, including a tall, aristocratic-looking man with pomaded gray hair. I told…

— Tony Horwitz

“Michael King was a young preacher with horn-rimmed glasses and a close-cropped beard and mustache. "The Bible says, if eating meat offends…

— Tony Horwitz

Egyptians undergo an odd personality change behind the wheel of a car. In every other setting, aggression and impatience are frowned upon.…

— Tony Horwitz