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As Herman Melville wrote of that seagoing monster of a man Captain Ahab, All mortal greatness is but disease.

Nathaniel Philbrick

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My activism did not spring from my being gay, or, for that matter, from my being black. Rather, it is rooted fundamentally in my Quaker upbringing and the values that were instilled in me by my grandparents who reared me.
Bayard Rustin

Nathaniel Philbrick

Nathaniel Philbrick
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Born: June 11, 1956 (age 70)
Bio: Nathaniel Philbrick is an American author and a member of the Philbrick literary family. He won the year 2000 National Book Award for his maritime history, In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex.
Known for:
  1. Bunker Hill: A City, a Siege, a Revolution (2013)
  2. Why Read Moby-Dick? (2011)

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