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.
Jan Myrdal

Born: July 19, 1927
Died: October 30, 2020 (aged 93)
Bio: Jan Myrdal was a Swedish author, leftist-political writer and columnist. He was an honorary doctor of literature at Upsala College in New Jersey, US, and a PhD at Nankai University in Tianjin in China. He lived at various times in the United States, Afghanistan, Iran and India.
Known for:
- India waits (1980)
- Confessions of a disloyal European (1968)
- Childhood (1991)
- 12 Going on 13