Richard Hofstadter Quotes
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The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, that it is suspended between its position in the eternal world, with all its corruption and evils and cruelties, and the splendid world of our imagination.
Richard Hofstadter
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Author Details:
Type:
Historian Quotes
Category:
American Historian Quotes
Date of Birth:
August 6, 1916
Date of Death:
October 24, 1970
Nationality:
American
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Carter G. Woodson
Howard Zinn
Will Durant
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