“There exists, all around us, an apparatus urging us to accept American innocence at face value and not to inquire too much.”— Ta-Nehisi Coates, amazon.com
“Rhodes readily admitted to me that the work he does is a potentially dangerous distortion of democracy, but he also felt that it had become a necessary evil, caused by the fracturing of the 20th-century mass audience and the decline of the American press. He expressed a deep personal hopelessness ab…”— David Samuels, nytimes.com