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The Constitution was the expression not only of a political faith, but also of political fears. It was wrought both as the organ of the national interest and as the bulwark of certain individual and local rights.
Maurice Francis Egan
Born: May 24, 1852
Died: January 15, 1924 (aged 71)
Bio: Maurice Francis Egan was an American writer and diplomat. He was a prolific writer and had a long and successful career as a Catholic journalist, literary critic, and novelist. He was a professor of English at two universities, and served as United States Minister in Copenhagen.
Known for:
- Confessions of a book-lover (1922)
- Everybody's St. Francis (1912)
- The life around us (1885)
- Lectures on English literature (1889)
- Songs and sonnets (1892)