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Burns discussed and showed clips from his new film “The National Parks: America’s Best Idea” Friday in Sanders Theater to kick-off Harvard’s celebration of the 150th anniversary of Roosevelt’s birth. Rossevelt graduated from the College...
Aside from traveling, much of his time is devoted to historical research and writing. He is preparing the first volume of a series entitled The Age of Rossevelt for publication in the fall. Though he is active politically, Schlesinger does not believe that the historian as such affects society appreciably. "The Primary motive of the historian is curiosity," he believes, "and his greatest contribution to society is in satisfying that curiosity in others. Anything else is merely a by-product. The historian does not change society so much as he reflects...
...primary effect of Wallace's conference will be to boost morale in the Nazi-conquered countries. In America it will increase confidence that Rossevelt's promises will mean more than the Fourteen Points in making the peace. Verbose and eloquent promises are easy to forget and to misinterpret--clear, factual agreements publicly issued are hard for even the European masters of verbal gymnastics to pervert. Therefore, the proposals of Wallace and Leith-Ross, if sufficiently just, widely enough publicized, and actually carried out, may mean that the war will not inevitably result in an economically unworkable Europe. With freedom...
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