Quote of the day
The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
John W. Kingdon

Born: 1940 (age 85)
Bio: John Wells Kingdon is Professor Emeritus and was Acting Chair of Political Science at the University of Michigan. He is a graduate of Oberlin College and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Known for:
- Agendas, alternatives, and public policies (1984)
- America the unusual (1999)
- Congressmen's voting decisions (1973)