What the Fed is really trying to say is that it doesn't know what it is going to do next. And if… — Scott Anderson Copy Share Image
“Do not try to do too much with your own hands. Better the Arabs do it tolerably than that you do it perfectly. It… — Scott Anderson Copy Share Image
“He wasn’t sure what to do. If he left the rock, it would only take a few minutes of desert air to dry his… — Scott Anderson Copy Share Image
“nothing capable of sustaining an invasion force of any size. But in all this, Aqaba, lying at the very southern end of the” — Scott Anderson Copy Share Image
“Better a thousand times the Arab untouched. The foreigners come out here always to teach, whereas they had much better learn.” — Scott Anderson Copy Share Image
Waitresses, soldiers, rickshaw drivers, old ladies selling vegetables - my father would schmooze anybody. He was Clintonesque before the word existed. And, of course,… — Scott Anderson Copy Share Image
The modern Middle East was largely created by the British. It was they who carried the Allied war effort in the region during World… — Scott Anderson Copy Share Image
“Over the course of his wartime service, Lawrence was awarded a number of medals and ribbons, but with his profound disdain for such things,… — Scott Anderson Copy Share Image
“Part of Sykes's motive was rooted in religiosity. A devout Catholic, he regarded a return of the ancient tribe of Israel to the Holy… — Scott Anderson Copy Share Image
“Initial euphoria would give way to shock, shock to horror, and then, as the killing dragged on with no end in sight, horror to… — Scott Anderson Copy Share Image
If wells are constructed right and operated right, hydraulic fracturing will not cause a problem. … Our natural gas supplies would plummet precipitously without… — Scott Anderson Copy Share Image
“mold—William Henry Yale also subscribed to Roosevelt’s notions of the ideal American man and of the dangers of “over-civilization,” code for effeminacy. The true… — Scott Anderson Copy Share Image
