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Old reference books are like tree rings. Without them, there'd be no way to know what a tree had lived through.

~Jill Lepore

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Conservatism cherishes tradition; innovation fetishizes novelty. They tug in different directions, the one toward the past, the other toward the future.

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Weirdly, there have been a lot of critics of conservatism, but very few critics of innovation. As a culture, we are deeply paranoid about politics, but we gaze upon innovation with rapturous adulation.

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Nineteenth-century grass-roots populism made twentieth-century progressivism possible.

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Book reviewing dates only to the eighteenth century, when, for the first time, there were so many books being printed that magazines - they were new, too - started printing essays about them.

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Folklore used to be passed by word of mouth, from one generation to the next; that's what makes it folklore, as opposed to, say, history, which is written down and stored in an archive.

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Clarence Darrow, America's best-known trial lawyer, was also one of American history's most skilled orators.

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Americans, among the marryingest people in the world, are also the divorcingest.

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Some people will always think they know how to make other people's marriages better, and, after a while, they'll get to cudgeling you or selling you something; the really entrepreneurial types will sell you the cudgel.

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History is hereditary only in this way: we, all of us, inherit everything, and then we choose what to cherish, what to disavow, and what to do next, which is why it's worth trying to know where things come from.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Historian

Born: Unknown

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