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David Nasaw

David Nasaw Biography

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David Nasaw is an American historian and author renowned for his in-depth research into 20th-century American history. His works span various fields, including politics, society, and culture, and are praised for their thorough research and insightful analysis.

David Nasaw is an American historian and author renowned for his in-depth research into 20th-century American history. His works span various fields, including politics, society, and culture, and are praised for their thorough research and insightful analysis.

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“The biographer is often asked at the conclusion of his project whether he has grown to like or dislike his subject. The answer of course is both. But the question is misplaced. This biographer's greatest fear was not that he might come to admire or disapprove of his subject, but that he might end up enervated by years of research into another man's life and times. That was, fortunately, never the case. The highest praise I can offer Andrew Carnegie is to profess that, after these many years of research and writing, I find him one of the most fascinating men I have encountered, a man who was many things in his long life, but never boring.”

Biographers Andrew Carnegie Misplaced Question

Book:Andrew Carnegie

Source: Andrew Carnegie

“I never really drank until I got in the Service. I didn't smoke either until I got in the Service. I got all my bad habits in the Service. [ -- Leslie Moede who served in post WW2 Germany]”

Military Service Military Draft

Book:The Wounded Generation: Coming Home After World War II

Source: The Wounded Generation: Coming Home After World War II

“He [Andrew Carnegie] wanted people to be able to lift themselves, to educate themselves, to train themselves. And there was no better way to do that than with libraries.”

People Way Able Wanted Train Library Lifts Educate Better Ways Andrew Carnegie

Author:David Nasaw

“Carnegie believed in the survival of the fittest. He believed in Social Darwinism. He believed that you had to give an opportunity to the fittest, who were going to survive, to the fittest to rise themselves as high as they could.”

Giving Opportunity Social Survival Darwinism Survival Of The Fittest Carnegie Social Darwinism

Author:David Nasaw

“Great military leaders have to sacrifice soldiers; great captains of industry have to sacrifice people. You can't only look after the poor, and the weak, and the disabled. You've got to do what's best for the community, and that often means sacrificing innocent people.”

People Looks Mean Community Poor Leader Sacrifice Military Industry Weak Soldier Innocent Captains Disabled Great Military Military Leader Captains Of Industry

Author:David Nasaw

“Buffett, when he gave away his money, referenced Carnegie. He quoted from Carnegie. When he said, "The man who dies rich dies disgraced," in the 1880s, his fellow millionaires looked on him like he was a lunatic, you know, an idiot, a mad man.”

Knows Men Said Dies Rich He Man Fellows Mad Idiot Millionaire Lunatic Mad Men Carnegie Buffett

Author:David Nasaw

“To entrust the government with the power of determining the education which our children receive is entrusting our servant with the power to be our master.”

Children Government Liberty Masters Our Children Libertarian Servant Libertarianism Entrusting

Author:David Nasaw

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Born: July 18, 1945
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