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Paul Fussell was an American historian renowned for his profound insights into 20th-century American society and culture. His works explored American military history, consumerism, and the changes in post-war American life.

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Famous Paul Fussell Quotes

“Exploration belongs to the Renaissance, travel to the bourgeois age, tourism to our proletarian moment.The explorer seeks theundiscovered, the traveler that which has been discovered by the mind working in history,the tourist that which has been discovered by entrepreneurship and prepared for him by the arts of mass publicity.If the explorer moves toward the risks of the formless and the unknown, the tourist moves toward the security of pure cliché. It is between these two poles that the traveler mediates.”

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Author:Paul Fussell

“Exploration belongs to the Renaissance, travel to the bourgeois age, tourism to our proletarian moment.”

Moments Age Exploration Renaissance Bourgeois Tourism

Book:Abroad: British Literary Traveling between the Wars

Source: Abroad: British Literary Traveling between the Wars

“Tourism requires that you see conventional things, and that you see them in a conventional way.”

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Author:Paul Fussell

“Before the development of tourism, travel was conceived to be like study, and it's fruits were considered to be the adornment of the mind and the formation of the judgment.”

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Book:Abroad: British Literary Traveling between the Wars

Source: Abroad: British Literary Traveling between the Wars

About the Author

Born: March 22, 1924
Died: May 23, 2012
Known for: Historian
Quotes: 48

Books & Sources

Class: A Guide Through the American Status SystemRelated source material

Thank God for the Atom Bomb, and Other EssaysRelated source material

The Great War and Modern MemoryRelated source material

Abroad: British Literary Traveling between the WarsRelated source material

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The Boy Scout Handbook and Other ObservationsRelated source material

Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World WarRelated source material

Bad Or, the Dumbing of AmericaRelated source material

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