The quotable historian : words of wisdom from Winston Churchill, Barbara Tuchman, Edward Gibbon, Julius Caesar, David McCullough, and more
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The quotable historian : words of wisdom from Winston Churchill, Barbara Tuchman, Edward Gibbon, Julius Caesar, David McCullough, and more
McGraw-Hill, c2000
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Each quotation in this compendium has been taken from the great histories as well as from the offhand comments of historians. Recorded history goes back 5500 years, and this work covers most of this span, from Herodotus to the 21st century.
Table of Contents
Action. America and the American Character. American Revolution. The American West and the Frontier. Assassination. Beginnings and Endings. Biography. Books. Capitalism. Thomas Carlyle. Cause and Effect. Change and Tradition. Chaos Versus Order. Character. The Civil War. Civilization. Class and Caste. Commerce. Communism. Conflict and Crisis. Conquest. Consequences. Courage. Creativity and Imagination. Crime and Corruption. Criticism. Culture and Society. Curiosity. Deceipt and Deception. England and the English. Events. Expressions and Language. Fad and Fashion. Favors and Patronage. Folklore and Myth. Folly and Vanity. France and the French. Gentlemen. Germany and the Germans. God and Religion. Government. Greatness and Ambition. Greed. Happiness. Heroism. Historians and the Historian's Craft. The Nature of History. Honor. Human Nature and the Human Condition. Hype and Skepticism. Ideals and Idealism. Ignorance. Immigrants. Intolerance and Hatred. Knowledge. Leaders. Liberty and Justice. Logic and Reason. Thomas Babington Macaulay. Marxism. Misery. Money and Profit. Morality. Nations and Nationalism. Nature and the World. Oppression and Persecution. Order. "Our" Times--and the Times to Come. The Past. Patriotism. Philosophy. Politics. Poverty. Power. Press and Media. Privacy. Progress. Public Opinion. Race and Racism. Rationality and Irrationality. Reform. Revolution and Unrest. Russia. Sense and Nonsense. Sport. Struggle. Thought. Truth and Perception. Tyranny and Totalitarianism. Urban Life. Vice and Virtue. War. Women. Work. World War I. World War II. Youth and Children.
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