The quotable historian : words of wisdom from Winston Churchill, Barbara Tuchman, Edward Gibbon, Julius Caesar, David McCullough, and more

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245 0 4 ‡aThe quotable historian : ‡bwords of wisdom from Winston Churchill, Barbara Tuchman, Edward Gibbon, Julius Caesar, David McCullough, and more / ‡c[edited by] Alan Axelrod.
260 ‡aNew York : ‡bMcGraw-Hill, ‡cc2000.
300 ‡axii, 189 p. ; ‡c22 cm.
504 ‡aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 ‡aAction -- America and the American character -- American Revolution -- American west and the frontier -- Assassination -- Beginnings and endings -- Biography -- Books -- Capitalism -- Thomas Carlyle -- Cause and effect -- Change and tradition -- Chaos versus order -- Character -- Civil War -- Civilization -- Class and caste -- Commerce -- Communism -- Conflict and crisis -- Conquest -- Consequences -- Courage -- Creativity and imagination -- Crime and corruption -- Criticism -- Culture and society -- Curiosity -- Deceit and deception -- Decisions -- Democracy -- Discontent -- Economics -- Education -- Enemies -- England and the English -- Events -- Expression and language -- Fad and fashion -- Favors and patronage -- Folklore and myth -- Folly and vanity -- France and the French -- Gentlemen -- Germany and the Germans -- God and religion -- Government -- Greatness and ambition -- Greed -- Happiness -- Heroism -- Historians and the historian's craft -- Nature of history -- Honor -- Human nature and the human condition -- Hype and skepticism -- Ideals and idealism -- Ignorance -- Immigrants -- Intolerance and hatred -- Knowledge -- Leaders -- Liberty and justice -- Logic and reason -- Thomas Babington Macaulay -- Marxism -- Misery -- Money and profit -- Morality -- Nations and nationalism -- Nature and the natural world -- Oppression and persecution -- Order -- "Our" times, and the time to come -- Past -- Patriotism -- Philosophy -- Politics -- Poverty -- Power -- Press and media -- Privacy -- Progress -- Public opinion -- Race and racism -- Rationality and irrationality -- Reform -- Revolution and unrest -- Russia -- Sense and nonsense -- Sport -- Struggle -- Thought -- Truth and perception -- Tyranny and totalitarianism -- Urban life -- Vice and virtue -- War -- Women -- Work -- World War I -- World War II -- Youth and children.
538 ‡aMode of access: Internet.
650 0 ‡aHistorians ‡vQuotations.
650 0 ‡aQuotations, English.
700 1 ‡aAxelrod, Alan, ‡d1952-
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