Spying on the South: Travels with Frederick Law Olmsted in a Fractured Land
By: Tony Horwitz
3.98
Format: None pages, Audio CD
Beloved best-selling author Tony Horwitz retraces Frederick Law Olmsted's epic journey across the A…
Want to Read $ 13.99"Bowlin was previously divorced and had learned a thing or two. "Set of titties or a college education-buy either of those for your old lady and she's done," he said, "She doesn't need you anymore."-Tony Horwitz, Spying on the South: Travels with Frederick Law Olmsted in a Fractured Land
"The only person of color in any of the photographs was a black waiter. Blacks were otherwise barred from the dance hall, as were locals of Mexican descent. In the Texas of that day, laws and customs known as Juan Crow subjected Hispanics to discrimination and segregation similar to that inflicted on African Americans."-Tony Horwitz, Spying on the South: Travels with Frederick Law Olmsted in a Fractured Land
"There was another, much clearer survival of freethinking ways. Sisterdale had never had a church, and Joe said his family had rarely spoken of religion except to dismiss it. "Dad would tell us, 'Dat's for Catholics', or 'Dat's for Lutherans, not us,' and said that if he wanted to talk to God he could do it in the fields."-Tony Horwitz, Spying on the South: Travels with Frederick Law Olmsted in a Fractured Land
"the inscription at its base put San Jacinto on a par with Waterloo and other exalted fights. The defeat of Santa Anna, the "self-styled 'Napoleon of the West,"" led to the annexation of Texas, war with Mexico, and the "acquisition" of "one third of the present area of the American nation." As such, "San Jacinto was one of the decisive battles of the world."-Tony Horwitz, Spying on the South: Travels with Frederick Law Olmsted in a Fractured Land
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"Stephenson had succeeded with an unusual formula for a mass movement: men were the muscle, women spread the poison, and ministers sanctified it all."-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
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20. Spying on the South: Travels with Frederick Law Olmsted in a Fractured Land
By: Tony Horwitz
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