Quote of the day
What do we, as a nation, care about books? How much do you think we spend altogether on our libraries, public or private, as compared with what we spend on our horses?
Paul Blanshard
Born: August 27, 1892
Died: January 27, 1980 (aged 87)
Bio: Paul Beecher Blanshard was an American author, assistant editor of The Nation magazine, lawyer, socialist, secular humanist, and from 1949 an outspoken critic of Catholicism.
Known for:
- American Freedom and Catholic Power (1949)
- Communism, Democracy And Catholic Power (1951)
- Classics of Free Thought (1977)
- An outline of the British labor movement (1923)
- Irish and catholic power (1953)