Author jeff quinn. You open your most recent book, waco, with this quote from rick perlstein, the historian. A fog of crosscut motives and narratives, the complexity that defies storybook simplicity at a that is usually the way history happens. I think the quote is the most cogent of ever heard. Rick does a tremendous job himself and its true. Know historic event happens in a vacuum. Its tied to many other things. And thats the fascination in research and writing on narrative, nonfiction, history. What i read a quote from you as well, and this is from 2021 in the cleburne times review. A lot of people no longer want to buy nonfiction to learn things. They want nonfiction books to reflect what they already believ want books to reinforce their opinions. They want books that tell them everything they believe is absolutely right and that the other side is even worse than they thought. If you take a look at the bestseller list for nonfiction, for the last several years, theres three categor
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