Quote of the day
Ah! what avail the largest gifts of Heaven,
When drooping health and spirits go amiss?
How tasteless then whatever can be given!
Health is the vital principle of bliss,
And exercise, of health.
George M. Fredrickson

Born: July 16, 1934
Died: February 25, 2008 (aged 73)
Bio: George M. Fredrickson was an American Edgar E. Robinson Professor of U.S. History at Stanford University from 1984 until the time of his retirement in 2002.
Known for:
- Racism: A Short History (2002)
- White Supremacy (1981)
- The Black image in the white mind (1971)
- The arrogance of race (1988)
- The inner Civil War (1965)