History is often the tale of small moments—chance encounters or casual decisions or sheer coincidence—that seem of little consequence at the time, bu…

- Scott Anderson

Waitresses, soldiers, rickshaw drivers, old ladies selling vegetables - my father would schmooze anybody. He was Clintonesque before the word existed…

- Scott Anderson

In keeping with original Mormon teachings, much of the property in Hildale and Colorado City is held in trust for the church. Striving to be as self-…

- Scott Anderson

My father suffered from chronic wanderlust. When I was 14, he set out on a yearlong road trip across Europe and Asia - and decided to take me along f…

- Scott Anderson

Among the handful of British diplomats and military men aware of their government's secret policy in the Middle East-that the Arabs were being encour…

- Scott Anderson

If wells are constructed right and operated right, hydraulic fracturing will not cause a problem. … Our natural gas supplies would plummet precipitou…

- Scott Anderson

What the Fed is really trying to say is that it doesn't know what it is going to do next. And if the markets abhor anything, it is uncertainty. Expec…

- Scott Anderson

Part of Sykes's motive was rooted in religiosity. A devout Catholic, he regarded a return of the ancient tribe of Israel to the Holy Land as a way to…

- Scott Anderson

Pain is always preferable to numbness.

- Scott Anderson