“Do not try to do too much with your own hands. Better the Arabs do it tolerably than that you do 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… — 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… — 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 Time Copy Share Image
Waitresses, soldiers, rickshaw drivers, old ladies selling vegetables - my father would schmooze anybody. He was Clintonesque before the word existed. And,… — Scott Anderson Anybody 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… — Scott Anderson Allied 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… — Scott Anderson War 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… — Scott Anderson Holy land 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,… — 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… — Scott Anderson Causes 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.… — Scott Anderson Programming Copy Share Image
The peculiarities of my childhood, of constantly moving through so many different cultures, of always being the outsider, may have made me… — Scott Anderson Also Copy Share Image
Among the handful of British diplomats and military men aware of their government's secret policy in the Middle East-that the Arabs were… — Scott Anderson Affront Copy Share Image
“The foreigners come out here always to teach, whereas they had much better learn.” — Scott Anderson Education Copy Share Image
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 Feds Copy Share Image
“the British Empire now stood at the very apex of modern civilization, and that it was the special burden of this empire… — Scott Anderson British empire Copy Share Image
I'd been to a number of war zones before in my life, but I had never been in one as terrifying as… — Scott Anderson Been Copy Share Image
“And for all concerned there was a deepening anger that under the cloak of defending the sacred tenet of “free trade,” the… — Scott Anderson Free trade Copy Share Image
“British generals often gave away in stupidity what they had gained in ignorance.” — Scott Anderson Ignorance Copy Share Image
“Certainly, blame for all this [turmoil in the Middle East] doesn't rest solely with the terrible decisions that were made at the… — Scott Anderson Middle east Copy Share Image
“correspondent in the Middle East, attaché William Yale. With that dispatch he was establishing a tradition of fundamentally misreading the situation in… — Scott Anderson Five years Copy Share Image
The principle of plural marriage was revealed to the Mormons amid much secrecy. Dark clouds hovered over the church in the early… — Scott Anderson After Copy Share Image
My father suffered from chronic wanderlust. When I was 14, he set out on a yearlong road trip across Europe and Asia… — Scott Anderson Across Copy Share Image
History is often the tale of small moments—chance encounters or casual decisions or sheer coincidence—that seem of little consequence at the time,… — Scott Anderson Butterfly Copy Share Image
