“Many pundits today are in the habit of misquoting Santayana's epigram, Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. Maybe some people have come to grief this way, but they are probably fewer than those who have fallen into the opposite error. One is apt to perish in politics from too much memory, Tocqueville wrote somewhere, with equal truth and greater insight.”
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David Hackett Fischer
David Hackett Fischer is a renowned American historian, born on December 2, 1935. He earned a Ph.D. in History from Yale University and has dedicated his career to the study of early American history, particularly the colonial and revolutionary periods. more