“If I could couch in one single sentence the way I felt, watching this controlled steam-roller operation roll into high gear, I would put it this way, I would say that I now believe I know how it felt to be a Jew in Hitler’s Germany.”

“While not himself a racist, Mr. Goldwater articulates a philosophy which gives aid and comfort to racists,” King argued. “His candidacy and philosophy will serve as an umbrella under which extremists of all stripes will stand.”

War is not combat, though combat is a part of war. Combatants are not the main participants in modern war. Modern war affects civilians far more and far longer than combatants.

who have now demonstrated in the Goldwater movement how much political leverage can be got out of the animosities and passions of a small minority

I call it the paranoid style simply because no other word adequately evokes the sense of heated exaggeration, suspiciousness, and conspiratorial fantasy that I have in mind.

One, <em>Foreign Conspiracies against the Liberties of the United States</em>, was from the hand of the celebrated painter and inventor of the telegraph, S.F.B. Morse. “A conspiracy exists,” Morse proclaimed , and “its plans are already in operation&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;. we are attacked in a vulnerable quarter which cannot be defended by our ships, our forts, or our armies

Patrick Buchanan, then a Nixon aide, said of blue-collar Americans in a memo to the boss, “These, quite candidly, are our people now.”

but no single book can be considered the definitive account of the events and aftermath of May 4, l970, at Kent State University.(1)

United States history book by Mary Beth Norton et al. (1994),