- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Aware
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was never concretely aware of the extent of anti-Semitism in the United States and in the upper levels of the State Department.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I thought I'd go to a bookstore and see what moved me.
- Diary
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started reading the big histories and the small histories, the memoirs and so forth. At some point, I found the diary of William E. Dodd.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
We, of course, have the power of hindsight in our arsenal, but people living in Berlin in that era didn't. What would that have been like as this darkness fell over Germany?
- Diplomats
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hitler was such an anomalous character - he was so over-the-top chaotic in his approach to statesmanship, his manner and in the violence which overwhelmed the country initially. I think diplomats around the world... felt like something like that simply would not be tolerated by the people of Germany.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I pride myself on having a journalistic remove.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's something so relentless and foul about Hitler and his people, and the way things progressed from year to year. It just got to me in the strangest way.
- Mood
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't listen to music when I write, but I do turn on appropriate music when I read portions of my manuscripts back to myself - kind of like adding a soundtrack to help shape mood.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm very perverse. If someone tells me I have to read a book, I'm instantly disinclined to do so.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Reading is such a personal thing to me. I'd much rather give someone a gift certificate to a bookstore, and let that person choose his or her own books.
- Amazing Things
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the really amazing things about the Lusitania saga was that, at the time, there existed in the admiralty a super-secret spy entity known as 'Room 40'.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Washington, we had a grieving President Wilson, very, very much a lonely, grieving man. He had lost his wife of many years in August 1914 at about the same time the war broke out in Europe.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a rule, I am very skeptical of tying books to anniversaries. I don't think readers care. I also feel that it just about guarantees that somebody else will be writing a book on the same subject, but being a former journalist, I'm always interested in, like, why write about something today? Why do it now?
- Hero
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- Nov 07, 2020
Captain William Thomas Turner, hero; villain, Schwieger. As I started doing research into him and into the submarine and so forth, I found that I was growing increasingly sympathetic to him. He's a young guy, 30, handsome, well-liked by his crew, humane.
- Nov 07, 2020
I've really tried to strip my writing of as many adjectives and adverbs as I possibly can.
- Dangerous
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been asked a lot lately what message is there in the Lusitania for the modern day. To be honest, not much. Except that maybe hubris and overconfidence are always dangerous things.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020