Quote of the day
The one function that T. V. news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if it were.
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)






