James Lee Burke Quotes

Its history is emblematic of every event that has occurred in our history the pre-Revolutionary colonial era, the age of exploration, and slavery, extermination of Native Americans, and then of course the War between the States, it's all right there in the city of New Orleans.

- James Lee Burke

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