Quotes from Hampton Sides

We are not pleasant people here, for the story of war is always the story of hate; it makes no difference with whom one fights. The hate destroys you Ã¢â'¬Â¦ Agnes Newton Keith Three Came Home

By December Edison was making public demonstrations and taking his first commercial orders. "We will make electricity so cheap," he said, "that only the rich will burn candles.

It was hard to comprehend how profoundly the world needed to scratch the Arctic itch.

The ice pack as a whole forms a mobile belt on whose polar side the sea is more or less ice free," he argued.

Almond, proving a master of damage control, found his way to promotion.

It was the biggest investigation ever conducted, for a single crime, in U.S. history." Several

The next star shell revealed a horrific panorama: The snow was smeared with blood. Twisted corpses and shorn body parts had been flung in all directions.

quote Euripides: "Whom the gods would destroy they first make mad.")

What a sordid tradition of violence we have in our country—and what an alarming record of assassinations and assassination attempts.

But why would anyone—officer, seaman, or scientist—volunteer for such a risky and difficult mission in the Arctic?

this Navy Corpsman, lying there with his scissors in one hand and a roll of bandages in the other. He must have been hit just as he was going to treat some wounded Marine.

them. A fire crackled in one corner, and a grand piano

I felt as we floundered aimlessly about in the snow that it made little difference to me whether I lived or died. It seemed to me that the terrible journey would have no end. I was awake and aware of all that was transpiring around me, but had lost all feeling and power of speech, and existed like an animated dead man.

They desecrated graves and stole funerary trinkets and jewelry. They removed the dead person's flesh and ground it up to make a lethal poison called "corpse powder," which the skinwalkers blew into people's faces, giving them the "ghost sickness." Even a fingernail paring or a strand of hair from a dead person could be used by a skinwalker to perform diabolical things.

The privilege isn't given to everyone.… You must have suffered first, have suffered greatly, have gained some miserable knowledge. In that way your eyes are opened to it. —Henry James, 1881

Much was made of the "Oriental" need to save face, but Americans were not immune to the phenomenon.

A hero, he'd once heard, was a person caught in the right place at the wrong t

Mormon out of whole cloth. He pronounced Mormonism a "myth fraternity," and slipped into a profound spiritual crisis that lasted until his death, of a heart attack, in 1983. "You can't set Book of Mormon geography down anywhere," he wrote in 1976, "because it is fictional and will never meet the requirements of the dirt-archaeology. What is in the ground will

the FBI's search for MLK's killer began, a manhunt that would become the largest in American history

The reason it looked simple," Smith later boasted, "was that professionals were doing it." 2 TRAITOR'S HOUSE Seoul Twenty miles to the northeast, the citizens of Seoul waited anxiously, bracing themselves for the coming Americans.

the surly orphan of American politics Ã¢â'¬Â¦ the grim joker in the deck, whose nightrider candidacy [is] a rough approximation of the potential for an American fascism." People

to plan for a return to the Arctic. One

The men found one mine—also Russian-made—that had a particularly diabolical design. A dozen ships could pass over it without incident, but the thirteenth ship would cause it to detonate. "It took a curious sort of mind to come up with a notion like that," wrote one Marine, wondering if the number thirteen had a "sinister connotation for Russians as it did in the States.

but Rhee's police-state tactics concerned the Truman administration enough that it refused to provide the republic with much in the way of heavy arms—thus leaving South Korea vulnerable to attack.