Quote of the day
This dead of midnight is the noon of thought,
And Wisdom mounts her zenith with the stars.
At this still hour the self-collected soul
Turns inward, and beholds a stranger there
Of high descent, and more than mortal rank;
An embryo God; a spark of fire divine.
Charles S. Maier
Born: February 23, 1939 (age 86)
Bio: Charles S. Maier is the Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History at Harvard University. He teaches European and international history at Harvard. Maier has also served as the director of the Center for European Studies at Harvard.
Known for:
- Among empires (2006)
- The Unmasterable Past (1988)
- Recasting bourgeois Europe (1975)
- Leviathan 2.0 (2014)







