Charles Kaiser

thumb|Charles Kaiser Charles Kaiser (born 1950) is an American author and journalist best known for his nonfiction books 1968 in America (1988), The Gay Metropolis (1997), and The Cost of Courage (2015). A former reporter for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Newsweek, he is currently a nonfiction book critic for The Guardian. Quotes The dismissiveness of Americans never ceases to exasperate me. ... Americans reflexively believe that had Germany occupied the United States, nearly all of us would have joined an armed resistance to the Nazis. That's what I thought, too, when I was 16. But that reflects a hopelessly naive view, both of what the world looked like to most people after the Nazis had conquered Austria, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Holland, Belgium, Luxembourg, Denmark, Norway and France, and of what it actually meant to take up arms against an occupying power. "What Americans forget about French resistance", CNN (May 8, 2015) External links Category:Non-fiction authors from the United States Category:Journalists from the United States Category:Literary critics Category:People from Washington, D.C. Category:1950 births Category:Living people