Richard Kluger

Every time a newspaper dies, even a bad one, the country moves a little closer to authoritarianism; when a great one goes,…

— Richard Kluger

“White Americans cannot deny their long history of abusive transactions with people of color. These offenses, it should be noted out of…

— Richard Kluger

“The cost of contemplating history is often an uneasy conscience.”

— Richard Kluger

“Americans, from the beginning and throughout much of their history, were a warrior people when dealing with those who stood in their…

— Richard Kluger

“Scholars have estimated that by 1850, the aboriginal population in North America—besieged by the invaders’ explosive weaponry, wondrous technology, contemptuous cruelty, and…

— Richard Kluger

“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…

— Richard Kluger

“Output had fallen to about half that figure in the last years of the Red empire, causing a cigarette shortage so severe…

— Richard Kluger