Back in time Quote by James Vance

It is essential that anyone reading this book know at the outset that the author is apolitical. I was convinced in 1927 that humanity's…

— Anonymous

“The logical conclusion of any political expansion surely was equally detrimental, equally devastating, if and when it happened to be successful?”

— Alaa Alghamdi

Don't make a novel to establish a principle of political economy. You will spoil both.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“History is, after all, something that happened to people. No 'force' whether economic or political can act except as it acts through the minds…

— Priscilla Smith Robertson

Since it's fiction, the book resonates, at least for me, on various levels, some of which intimate ideas about history but none of which…

— Rachel Kushner

“The beauty of history is that it can be altered by changing ones perspective. If the interpretation varies so does the impact. Free will…

— Truth Devour

It was important to me to put together a future history that would scan, and serve as the backdrop to the domestic story. Economics…

— Lionel Shriver

“a better reading of history must bring home the truth that the basic factor in human affairs is not politics, but race.”

— T. Lothrop Stoddard

By the time that book So You Want to Be President? came along, we had already had enough presidents that had shown us that…

— David Small

“I suppose history always did have in it a large bit of the perspective of those who wrote it. People tend to make their…

— Na'ama Yehuda

It had come about exactly in the way things happened in books.

— Agatha Christie

“There are three kind of history. The first is what really happened and that is forever lost. The second is what most people thought…

— Michael Gruber