Quote of the day
There are no countries in the world less known by the British than these selfsame British Islands, or where more strange things are every day occurring.
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)