Quote of the day
His own image... was no longer the reflection of a clumsy, dirty, gray bird, ugly and offensive. He himself was a swan! Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.
J. H. Hexter

Born: May 25, 1910
Died: December 8, 1996 (aged 86)
Bio: Jack H. Hexter was an American historian, a specialist in Tudor and seventeenth century British history, and well known for his comments on historiography.
Known for:
- On historians (1979)
- The Judaeo-Christian tradition (1966)
- The Traditions of the Western World (1967)
- Reappraisals in history (1961)
- More's Utopia: The Biography of an Idea (1952)






