“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. In return, the Indians were given nine reservations totaling about 93 square miles and promised $300,000… — 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
