Scott Anderson

“Even if he was happier in Asia than he'd been in Latin America, the wanderlust still worked on my father's insides like a disease. One of the most recurrent memories of my childhood is of hi...”

“Iraq is going to go down as one of the greatest blunders in American history.”

“I'd been to a number of war zones before in my life, but I had never been in one as terrifying as Chechnya.”

“Waitresses, soldiers, rickshaw drivers, old ladies selling vegetables - my father would schmooze anybody. He was Clintonesque before the word existed. And, of course, it paid dividends. Ill-...”

“The principle of plural marriage was revealed to the Mormons amid much secrecy. Dark clouds hovered over the church in the early 1840s, after rumors spread that its founder, Joseph Smith, ha...”

“So many times in the history of Mormon polygamy, the outside world thought it had the movement on the ropes only to see it flourish anew.”

“The peculiarities of my childhood, of constantly moving through so many different cultures, of always being the outsider, may have made me extraordinarily self-sufficient, but it had also br...”

“The modern Middle East was largely created by the British. It was they who carried the Allied war effort in the region during World War I and who, at its close, principally fashioned its pea...”