For me going to war offers me the ability to write about apparently very alien, sometimes hated or despised people, who've been objectified in a way that restores their humanity. Hopefully for my readers, that denies them the ability to… — Jon Lee Anderson Copy Share Image
How is it possible to live in world where people can rule millions of others? It's incredible! It's like we've gone back to the… — Jon Lee Anderson Copy Share Image
I think in a sense this is a house that was built on a bad foundation. And the foundation was the Americans coming here… — Jon Lee Anderson Copy Share Image
“One day in May 1930, Celia took her twoyear- old son for a swim at the yacht club, but it was already the onset… — jon lee anderson Copy Share Image
That's what's terrible about wars when whole societies adopt an impulse of objectification. Everything becomes black and white. — Jon Lee Anderson Copy Share Image
“with Ernestito riding on the front of his father’s saddle; and river excursions aboard the Kid, a wooden launch with a four-berth cabin that… — jon lee anderson Copy Share Image
We live in an extraordinary time, in which one still has the ability to mold opinion. Also, it's up for grabs. Perceptions are up… — Jon Lee Anderson Copy Share Image
I think it's deeply important for us to know, especially when we come from the outside, how "ordinary people" think and feel and what… — Jon Lee Anderson Copy Share Image
Charles Darwin, who had witnessed the atrocities perpetrated against Argentina’s native Indians by Juan Manuel de Rosas, had predicted that “the country will be… — Jon Lee Anderson Copy Share Image
It is important to know how influential people think and perceive their countrymen, let's say, especially when you are talking about people in power.… — Jon Lee Anderson Copy Share Image
Che is not just a potent figure of protest, but the idealistic, questioning kid who exists in every society and every time. — Jon Lee Anderson Copy Share Image
I don't think we would have had to be an occupying power if we had done the right thing in 1991. — Jon Lee Anderson Copy Share Image
