“Rutherford was a historian, after all, and secretly enjoyed it when the truth did injury to modern sensibilities.”

— Kage Baker , book The Life of the World to Come

Source: The Life of the World to Come (2004), Chapter 11, “Christmas Meeting” (p. 181)

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American writer 1952–2010

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