Quote of the day
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.
Denis William Brogan
Born: August 11, 1900
Died: January 5, 1974 (aged 73)
Bio: Sir Denis William Brogan, Scottish author and historian. He studied in Glasgow, Oxford, and Harvard. From 1939 to 1968, he was a fellow of Peterhouse and professor of political science in Cambridge.
Known for:
- America in the Modern World (1960)
- French Personalities And Problems (1946)
- The study of politics (1946)
- The American Character (1944)