City Quote by Joe Gebbia

In the post-war United States, you had this race to the suburbs. Cities shrank, the suburbs got bigger - and the notion of community…

— Joe Gebbia

Until the attack on Pearl Harbor, isolationism was an important, even dominant strand in U.S. politics. After the Second World War, this strand disappeared,…

— Anne Applebaum

After World War II society had to settle back for a moment before it picked up the 20th century.

— Stella Blum

What happened to the America we grew up in, the America of Truman, Ike, JFK and Reagan?

— Pat Buchanan

The heartfelt sympathy and friendship offered to America after the 9/11 attacks, even from formerly antagonistic regimes, has been largely dissipated; increasingly unilateral and…

— Jimmy Carter

World War II and the ensuing Cold War compelled the United States to develop a sustained commitment to Western Europe and the Far East.

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

“This much freedom leaves you on your own. More Americans than ever before live alone, but even a family can exist in isolation, just…

— George Packer

What we accomplished during World War Two is just amazing. We turned our country upside down. African Americans were demanding to be given combat…

— Margaret D. Klein

“World War II did more than usher in unparalleled prosperity for the United States. It transformed America's foreign relations. The war devastated the Axis…

— James T. Patterson

There's so much focus and interest about what happens during war, but very little about what happens when people return to homes and communities…

— Ishmael Beah

It took a world war, between 1914 and 1918, to draw the United States into a deeper and more sustained relationship with the wider world.

— Margaret MacMillan

After 1945 what happened was rather the opposite: with one major exception boundaries stayed broadly intact and people were moved instead.

— Tony Judt