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They may then be willing to cast principled votes based on an educated understanding of the public interest in the face of polls suggesting that the public itself may have quite a different understanding of where its interest lies.
Crane Brinton

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)






