Quote of the day
A monarchy is the most expensive of all forms of government, the regal state requiring a costly parade, and he who depends on his own power to rule, must strengthen that power by bribing the active and enterprising whom he cannot intimidate.
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)






