Alan D Granger

“As you approach almost any of our American cities by air, you see this city first as a large irregular brownish discoloration upon the landscape, overhung by a pall of smoke. But presently you notice at the center of the discoloration a protuberance: a jagged cluster of whitish pinnacles”
― Frederick Lewis Allen, The Lords of Creation: The History of America's 1 Percent

“the president of Egypt called in to the switchboard at Trump Tower and somehow got the operator to put him straight through to Trump. “Trump was like . . . I love the Bangles! You know that song ‘Walk Like an Egyptian’?” recalled one of his advisers on”
― Michael Lewis, The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy

“Maddox declared that secession had not been “a question of the union” but “simply fought about ‘niggers’!” He reminded listeners that “we fought for the supremacy of the white race in America; for civilization against abolition theories; the cause of truth against abolition prejudice; and the cause of common sense against the foulest errors that will ever astonish posterity.”26”
― Gary W. Gallagher, The Myth of the Lost Cause and Civil War History

“is the ceding of technical and scientific leadership to China. It is the innovation that never occurs, and the knowledge that is never created, because you have ceased to lay the groundwork for it. It is what you never learned that might have saved you.”
― Michael Lewis, The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy