Throughout the human experience people have read history because they felt that it was a pleasure and that it was in some way instructive. The profession of professor of history has taken it in a very different direction.
“What is the primary purpose of a political leader? To build a majority. If voters care about parking lots, then talk about parking lots.”
“The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly.”