Quote of the day
There are no countries in the world less known by the British than these selfsame British Islands, or where more strange things are every day occurring.
Perry Anderson

Born: September 1, 1938 (age 87)
Bio: Perry R. Anderson is a British historian and political essayist. A specialist in intellectual history, he is often identified with the post-1956 Western Marxism of the New Left.
Known for:
- Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism (1974)
- Lineages of the Absolutist State (1974)
- The Indian Ideology (2012)
- The New Old World (2009)
- American Foreign Policy and Its Thinkers (2015)