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Richard Kluger

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January 01, 1934 in The United States

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Richard Kluger (b. 1934) worked as a journalist before becoming an accomplished Pulitzer Prize-winning author and book publisher.

Kluger has written books of fiction and social history. He is the author of six novels (and two others with his wife, Phyllis). Two of his books are National Book Award finalists, Simple Justice and The Paper (a history of the Herald Tribune). Moreover, his historical study of the American cigarette business, Ashes to Ashes, won the Pulitzer Prize. Most recently, he has completed Seizing Destiny, an extended investigation of how the current territory of the United States was amassed.

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Average rating: 4.05 · 291 ratings · 63 reviews · 9 distinct works

	Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality 447 avg rating — 151 ratings — published 1975 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Ashes to Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris 361 avg rating — 49 ratings — published 1996 — 6 editions	My rating:
	The Bitter Waters of Medicine Creek: A Tragic Clash Between White and Native America 348 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 2011 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Sheriff of Nottingham: 8 348 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 1992 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Paper: The life and death of the New York Herald Tribune 427 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1986 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Seizing Destiny: How America Grew from Sea to Shining Sea 400 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2007 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Members of the Tribe 333 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1977 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Star Witness 300 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1979 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Un American Activities: A Novel 000 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:

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“The cost of contemplating history is often an uneasy conscience.”
― Richard Kluger, The Bitter Waters of Medicine Creek: A Tragic Clash Between White and Native America

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“White Americans cannot deny their long history of abusive transactions with people of color. These offenses, it should be noted out of fairness, can be explained in part by the fact that no other sizable national state has ever been formed from the confluence of so many diverse ethnic streams. All our heterogeneous ferment no doubt made contentiousness inevitable.”
― Richard Kluger, The Bitter Waters of Medicine Creek: A Tragic Clash Between White and Native America

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“Scholars have estimated that by 1850, the aboriginal population in North America—besieged by the invaders’ explosive weaponry, wondrous technology, contemptuous cruelty, and irresistible pathogens, as well as the Indians’ own ever-deepening despair—was just one-tenth of what it had been when Columbus first ventured ashore.”
― Richard Kluger, The Bitter Waters of Medicine Creek: A Tragic Clash Between White and Native America

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