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341 pages, Paperback
First published August 18, 1952
The world had changed radically for the Indians . . . It had become a white man’s world, and Indian ways in a white man’s world were irrelevant. It was impossible to hold the old Indian values in the changed world. The only thing they could do in the changed world was to become second-rate white men or wards of the white men. (LoA, pp. 259-260)
”And here, now, this little loop in the box before Paul, here was Rudy as Rudy had been to his machine that afternoon – Rudy, the turner-on of power, the setter of speeds, the controller of the cutting tool. This was the essence of Rudy as far as his machine was concerned, as far as the war effort had been concerned. The tape was the essence distilled from the small, polite man with the big hands and the black fingernails; from the man who thought the world could be saved if everyone read a verse from the Bible every night; form the man who adored a collie for want of children; from the man who … What else had Rudy said that afternoon? Paul supposed the old man was dead now – or in his second childhood in Homestead.”