Battlefields Quote by Anna Quindlen

“The Most Dangerous Book In America”

— Michael Mayhem

“it's difficult to root for America when the villains of the story live in a ditch and are armed with jagged rocks. At some…

— Yahtzee Croshaw

Whenever citizens are seen routinely as enemies of their own government, writers are rountinely seen to be the most dangerous enemies.

— E. L. Doctorow

“...I had come suddenly to pity them, for I understood how innocent and natural it was for them to behave abominably, and with such…

— Kurt Vonnegut

In the book, America had already been weakened by bio terror plagues before waves of selfish violence took down the rest. But the real…

— David Brin

From the earliest ages of history to the present day there never have been thirteen millions of people associated in one political body who…

— Andrew Jackson

From the earliest ages of history to the present day there have never been thirteen millions of people associated in one political body who…

— Andrew Jackson

“Five years later, 750,000 Americans were dead. But the fact that such carnage had been wreaked for a cause that Ulysses S. Grant called…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“Sharing the same blood with England, and yet her proved foe in two wars—not wholly inclined at bottom to forget an old grudge—intrepid, unprincipled,…

— Herman Melville

“After all, nothing was more American than wielding a gun and committing oneself to die for freedom and independence, unless it was wielding that…

— Viet Thanh Nguyen

“This is also why Anglo-American achievements cannot be seen in isolation from their ambiguous consequences and victims elsewhere; why many Anglo-American assumptions, derived from…

— Pankaj Mishra

“Garfield's shooting had also revealed to the American people how vulnerable they were. In the little more than a century since its inception, the…

— Candice Millard