Robert Gowan

“If Elvis: As Recorded at Madison Square Garden is Presley’s Born in the U.S.A., then Aloha from Hawaii via Satellite is his Tunnel of Love.”
― Steven Hyden, There Was Nothing You Could Do: Bruce Springsteen's “Born In The U.S.A.” and the End of the Heartland

“history is the only field in which the more courses students take, the stupider they become.”
― James W. Loewen, Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong

“These decisions were a heartbreaking catastrophe for Asians seeking citizenship. With pro–western European sentiment running high, the government began rescinding the naturalized citizenship of people of Asian descent who were already here. This amounted to an abandonment of people who had lived legally in the United States for most of their adult lives, as would echo a century later with immigrants crossing the southern U.S. border with Mexico.”
― Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

“For as in absolute governments the king is law, so in free countries the law ought to be king, and there ought to be no other.”
― Jon Meacham, The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels