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Buckley: The Life and the Revolution That Changed America

by Sam Tanenhaus

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“Crooked world, straight world, same rules - everybody had a hand out for the envelope.”
― Colson Whitehead, Harlem Shuffle

tags: reality-of-life

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“You can draw any kind of picture you want on a clean slate and indulge your every whim in the wilderness in laying out a New Delhi, Canberra, or Brasilia, but when you operate in an overbuilt metropolis, you have to hack your way with a meat ax. (Robert Moses)”
― Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

tags: city-planning, new-york-city

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“the violence intensified, grandiose funerals became routine, with rousing graveside orations and caskets draped in tricolor flags. People took to joking that there was no social life in Belfast anymore, apart from wakes.”
― Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

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