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wearing a hundred-dollar brown silk sports shirt and yellow linen golf slacks, was making notes with a gold pencil in a leather notebook. He put the notebook into his hip pocket and crossed the blue-carpeted room to talk to two men who said they were from Waycross, Georgia, John and Irwin Peeples.
Charles Willeford • Miami Blues (Hoke Moseley Detective Series Book 1)

Battle of Blair Mountain, that turned into the biggest war in America ever, other than the civil one. Twenty thousand guys from all over these mountains, fighting in regiments. They wore red bandannas on their necks to show they were all on the same side, working men. Mr. Armstrong said people calling us rednecks, that goes back to the red
... See moreBarbara Kingsolver • Demon Copperhead: Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction
Red Kelley fit right in. He was angry, petty, and violent. He had big ears and about three mustaches’ worth of mustache.
Sam Anderson • Boom Town




The oldest conflict in American politics is the one between individualism and centralism. Reagan changed the terms by inverting them: the descendants of Jefferson’s yeoman farmers, with their desire for independence, became sturdy car-company executives and investment bankers yearning to breathe free of big government. The heirs of Hamilton’s
... See moreGeorge Packer • Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal
John Wayne is of the sock-and-a-shoe, sock-and-a-shoe school.
David Foster Wallace • Infinite Jest
Teeney insisted that Coke show the reporter the historic marker that had been erected by the Texas State Historical Commission on the lawn of the Kimble County Courthouse. The marker had been placed in honor of a Texas institution. “Coke R. Stevenson,” it began. “Strong, Resourceful, Conservative Governor …” The reporter realized he was talking to
... See moreRobert A. Caro • Means of Ascent: The Years of Lyndon Johnson II
As his five-dollar name suggests, Roosevelt was the scion of the Atlantic elite. He was born into the New York aristocracy—his father helped found the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the American Museum of Natural History. Educated at Harvard and a rising star in the world of reform politics, “Thee,” as he signed his letters, was as pedigreed an
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