American - Author | December 27, 1969 -
I'm a big fan of editing and keeping only the interesting bits in.
Sarah Vowell
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We go in to liberate Cuba, but Cuba still isn't free; we don't really think through what we'll do after the initial treaty is signed, but we're still occupying. There's chaos and torture and finally an outcry.
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Relics are treasured as something close to the divine.
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Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves, Robert Lincoln bought a nice ski lodge.
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Assassins and presidents invite the same basic question: Just who do you think you are?
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History is full of really good stories. That's the main reason I got into this racket: I want to make the argument that history is interesting.
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I hated the lost colony; in second grade, we were doing American History, and they said, We don't know what happened to them. That drove me nuts. That lost colony drove me crazy.
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I loved that these two guys argued with each other as if movies actually mattered. Nobody I knew talked about movies that way, but Siskel and Ebert took each movie as it came and talked about whether it was a success on its own terms.
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In death, you get upgraded into a saint no matter how much people hated you in life.
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Not that I want the current president killed. I will, for the record and for the FBI agent assigned to read this and make sure I mean no harm, clearly state that while I am obsessed with death, I am against it.
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I didn't come from any kind of academic background, but I lived in a college town and I knew people who weren't without pretense. There was this idea in the town that if something was European it would be good.
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I discovered that Robert Todd Lincoln was there for each of the first three assassinations. I wanted to write about the Lincoln Memorial, so when I found out he had attended its dedication, that helped focus it further.
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