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No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
Crane Brinton
![Crane Brinton](/img/nopic_profile.png)
Born: 1898
Died: September 7, 1968 (aged 70)
Bio: Clarence Crane Brinton was an American historian of France, as well as an historian of ideas. His most famous work, The Anatomy of Revolution likened the dynamics of revolutionary movements to the progress of fever.
Known for:
- The Anatomy of Revolution (1938)
- History of Civilization, A
- A history of Western morals (1959)
- The Jacobins (1930)
- The lives of Talleyrand (1936)