Commager
Americannoun
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The historian Henry Steele Commager called the book “the most persuasive critique of American foreign policy over the last 20 years.”
From New York Times ● May 8, 2023
He also received, as birthday gifts from his mother’s friends, books by the historians Henry Steele Commager and Henri Pirenne.
From New York Times ● Jun. 11, 2022
Everyone prefers the Alger scenario of social mobility, which historian Henry Steele Commager described as one in which “opportunities lie all about you; success is material and is the reward of virtue and work.”
From Salon ● Jul. 16, 2017
Professor Commager is an unabashed small-"d" democrat who believes in the right of the majority to do what it pleases.
From Time Magazine Archive
The struggle for racial equality: a documentary record, selected and edited by Henry Steele Commager.
From The Negro in the United States; a selected bibliography. Compiled by Dorothy B. Porter by Dorothy B. Porter
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