"The 60s passed and faded and I grew older, and in 1987 bought a house in upstate New York, and it turned out that John Brown was buried down the road from my house and that he had lived there longer than anywhere else and his house was still standing."

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"The 60s passed and faded and I grew older, and in 1987 bought a house in upstate New York, and it turned out that John Brown was buried down the road from my house and that he had lived there longer than anywhere else and his house was still standing."

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"It's hard to spend years at a time working in total solitude with no reality-check."

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"The United States particularly abandoned Liberia after the end of the Cold War."

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"I much prefer working with kids whose life could be completely upended by a reading of a book over a weekend. You give them a book to read - they go home and come back a changed person. And that is so much more interesting and exciting."

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"My major allegiance has been to storytelling, not to history."

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"John Brown first swam into my vision in the 1960s when I was a political activist in the civil rights movement and the anti-war movement at Chapel Hill, where I went to university."

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"And out of a desire essentially to imitate what I was reading, I began to write, like a clever monkey."

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"One of the things I have tried to do with this book and with all of them really is avoid that simple, easy, reductionist view of motivation and to show we do things for a complex net of reasons, a real braid of reasons."

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"A couple of years I taught in graduate programs at NYU and Columbia, in the early eighties."

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