Quote of the day
I was not sympathetic to the assumption that criminals had radically different motivations from everyone else.
John M. Barry

Born: 1947 (age 78)
Bio: John M. Barry is an American author and historian, perhaps best known for his award-winning books on the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, the influenza pandemic of 1918, and the development of the modern form of the ideas of separation of church and state and individual liberty.
Known for:
- The Great Influenza (2004)
- Rising Tide (1997)