Quote of the day
One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.
Allan Nevins
Born: May 20, 1890
Died: March 5, 1971 (aged 80)
Bio: Joseph Allan Nevins was an American historian and journalist, renowned for his extensive work on the history of the Civil War and his biographies of such figures as Grover Cleveland, Hamilton Fish, Henry Ford, and John D.
Known for:
- The gateway to history (1938)
- A pocket history of the United States (1942)
- Fremont, pathmarker of the West (1939)
- America, the Story of a Free People (1943)
- Ordeal of the Union (1947)








