Quote of the day
In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward.
Kenneth S. Davis
Born: September 29, 1912
Died: June 10, 1999 (aged 86)
Bio: Kenneth Sydney Davis was a historian and university professor, most renowned for his series of biographies of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Davis also wrote biographies of Charles Lindbergh, Adlai Stevenson, and authored the first biography of General Dwight D.
Known for:
- FDR, the New Deal years, 1933-1937 (1972)
- FDR: The War President, 1940-1943
- FDR: The New York Years (1985)
- FDR, into the storm, 1937-1940 (1993)
- Soldier of democracy (1945)