Quote of the day
In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward.
Guenter Lewy
Born: August 22, 1923 (age 101)
Bio: Guenter Lewy is a German-born American author and political scientist who is a professor emeritus of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Known for:
- The Armenian massacres in Ottoman Turkey (2005)
- America in Vietnam (1978)
- The Catholic Church and Nazi Germany (1964)
- The Nazi Persecution of the Gypsies (1999)
- The cause that failed (1990)