“The piled-up dead of political violence are a generic staple of our information diet these days, and according to the generic report all massacres are created equal: the dead are innocent, the killers monstrous, the surrounding politics insane or nonexistent...The anonymous dead and their anonymous killers become their own context. The horror becomes absurd.” PoliticalViolenceInformationHorrorEqualInnocentAbsurdInsaneThese DaysDietsReportsKillersMonstrousMassacresStaplesGenericPolitical Violence Author:Philip Gourevitch
“What distinguishes genocide from murder, and even from acts of political murder that claim as many victims, is the intent. The crime is wanting to make a people extinct. The idea is the crime.” PeopleIdeasPoliticalCrimeClaimsMurderVictimGenocide Book:We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Picador Classic Source: We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Picador Classic
“Mike Stanton is our preeminent aficionado and raconteur of Rhode Island’s flamboyantly criminal political follies, and The Prince of Providence is the chronicle of a great American rogue, Mayor Buddy Cianci—a paragon of charisma and corruption.” PoliticalCorruptionCriminalsIslandsFollyProvidenceMikeBuddyMayorsCharismaGreat AmericanRoguesChroniclesRhode IslandParagon Author:Philip Gourevitch
“Political corruption is to Rhode Islanders as smog is to people who live in Los Angeles: nobody complains of its absence, but when it rolls around everyone feels right at home.” PeopleFeelsHomePoliticalCorruptionAbsenceComplainingLos AngelesFeels RightSmogPolitical Corruption Author:Philip Gourevitch
