Anne Hull Quotes
I grew up in central Florida in the nineteen-sixties, barefoot half the time and running around the orange groves where my father worked. I remember flocks of white birds that would lift from the backs of cattle, disturbed by the jackhammers and bulldozers clearing land for Walt Disney World.
Hull, Anne. Through the Groves: A Memoir. Henry Holt and Company, 2023.
Moses became the greatest “builder” the world had ever known. The Bridges and tunnels into New York, the highways in the city and Long Island, the development of Fire Island and the World Trade Center were all his work. Babbitt was a very large building and construction contractor. The Cold War was ongoing and his reference to civilian defense was an absurd notion of the 1950s that building bomb shelters in cities and homes could protect the civilian population in the event of nuclear attack. This was actually an official government position and program.
Anne Hull is an American journalist and writer. She was a national correspondent for the Washington Post for nearly two decades, writing about immigration, gay youth in the Bible Belt and U.S. soldiers coming home from the war in Iraq. Her reporting on the mistreatment of wounded soldiers at Walter Reed Army Medical Center with fellow Post reporter Dana Priest and photographer Michel duCille brought wide-sweeping national reform. For this work, the Post was awarded the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.
