“White Americans cannot deny their long history of abusive transactions with people of color. These offenses, it should be noted out of fairness, can be explained in part by the fact that no other sizable national state has ever been… — Richard Kluger Copy Share Image
Every time a newspaper dies, even a bad one, the country moves a little closer to authoritarianism; when a great one goes, like the… — Richard Kluger Copy Share Image
“White Americans cannot deny their long history of abusive transactions with people of color. These offenses, it should be noted out of fairness, can… — Richard Kluger Copy Share Image
“Americans, from the beginning and throughout much of their history, were a warrior people when dealing with those who stood in their path.” — Richard Kluger Copy Share Image
“Scholars have estimated that by 1850, the aboriginal population in North America—besieged by the invaders’ explosive weaponry, wondrous technology, contemptuous cruelty, and irresistible pathogens,… — Richard Kluger Copy Share Image
“Still, it had been a triumphal six-week tour. The nervy, smooth-talking governor had dispossessed the natives of 20,000 square miles without firing a shot.… — Richard Kluger Copy Share Image
“Output had fallen to about half that figure in the last years of the Red empire, causing a cigarette shortage so severe that Soviet… — Richard Kluger Copy Share Image
