“Cook, judging from his journals, was not a pious man. A product of the eighteenth century Enlightenment, he valued reason above all else, and showed little patience for what he called “Priest craft” and “superstition.” — Tony Horwitz Copy Share Image
“I came here from Kansas,” he announced to his captive. “This is a slave state. I want to free all the Negroes in this… — Tony Horwitz Copy Share Image
During a mock battle attended by President Warren Harding in 1921, Marine Corps General Smedley D. Butler exhumed the arm [of Stonewall Jackson; he… — Tony Horwitz Copy Share Image
“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 supposed to… — Tony Horwitz Copy Share Image
“I asked him if he thought “there” was better than “here.” “Not better,” he said. “I mean, my great-great-grandpap got his leg shot off.… — Tony Horwitz Copy Share Image
“When the singing ended, I chatted with others in my pew, including a tall, aristocratic-looking man with pomaded gray hair. I told him about… — Tony Horwitz Copy Share Image
“You asked how I'd define prejudice. That's it. Making assumptions about people you've never met.” — Tony Horwitz Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Cook,” the historian Bernard Smith speculates, “increasingly realised that wherever he went he was spreading the curses much more liberally than the benefits of… — Tony Horwitz Copy Share Image
“My life has been of but little worth mostly fild [sic] up with vanity.” — Tony Horwitz Copy Share Image
Egyptians undergo an odd personality change behind the wheel of a car. In every other setting, aggression and impatience are frowned upon. The unofficial… — Tony Horwitz Copy Share Image
“At one stop in New Zealand, an Englishman bartered for sex. He was presented with a boy; when he complained, he was presented with… — Tony Horwitz Copy Share Image
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