"Once I thought to write a history of the immigrants in America. Then I discovered that the immigrants were American history."

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[Louis] Brandeis, like [Tomas] Jefferson, is an equal opportunity critic of bigness. And he, like Jefferson, sees American history as this incredible clash between small producers, farmers, and small business people on the one hand, and wicked oligarchs and financiers and monopolists on the other.

— Jeffrey Rosen