To be a slaveholder meant one had to regard the African American as inferior in every way.

In 1945, there were more people killed, more buildings destroyed, more high explosives set off, more fires burning than before or since.

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 more want-to-be writers out there than good editors.

When Hitler declared war on the United States, he was betting that German soldiers, raised up in the Hitler Youth, would always out fight American soldiers, brought up in the Boy Scouts. He lost that bet. The Boy Scouts had been taught how to figure their way out of their own problems.

Nothing is inevitable in life. People make choices, and those choices have results, and we all live with the results.

Eisenhower is my choice as the American of the 20th Century. Of all the men I've studied and written about, he is the brightest and the best.