My first book was the book that changed my life.

The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.

Within Easy Company they had made the best friends they had ever had, or would ever have. They were prepared to die for each other; more important, they were prepared to kill for each other.

There are many rules of good writing, but the best way to find them is to be a good reader.

Washington and Jefferson were both rich Virginia planters, but they were never friends.

Andrew Johnson was a Southerner generally who proclaimed that his native state of Tennessee was a country for white men.

World War II, the atomic bomb, the Cold War, made it hard for Americans to continue their optimism.