Quote of the day
Nobody understood better than Mr. Lincoln the obvious truth that in politics it does not suffice merely to nominate candidates. Something must also be done to elect them.
George Woodcock

Born: May 8, 1912
Died: January 28, 1995 (aged 82)
Bio: George Woodcock was a Canadian writer of political biography and history, an anarchist thinker, an essayist and literary critic. He was also a poet and published several volumes of travel writing.
Known for:
- The Crystal Spirit: A Study of George Orwell (1966)
- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, A Biography (1956)
- Aphra Behn: The English Sappho (1948)