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The past was a consumable, subject to the national preference for familiar products. And history, in America, is a dish best served plain. The first course could include a dollop of Italian in 1492, but not Spanish spice or French sauce or too much Indian corn. Nothing too filling or fancy ahead of the turkey and pumpkin pie, just the way Grandma used to cook it (Tony Horwitz Quotes)
During a mock battle attended by President Warren Harding in 1921, Marine Corps General Smedley D. Butler exhumed the arm [of Stonewall Jackson; he didn’t believe it was buried there] and reburied it in a metal box (Tony Horwitz Quotes)
I couldn’t think of another city in the world that lined its streets with stone leviathans honoring failed rebels against the state. (Tony Horwitz Quotes)
There are people one knows and people one doesn’t. One shouldn’t cheapen the former by feigning intimacy with the latter (Tony Horwitz Quotes)