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“I have always had a strong interest in history and finding out about the past can be remarkably helpful with working out the future, too.”

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“Cotton Mather lusted all his life for the presidency of Harvard, a post his father had held, and which the son affected to despise,…

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And my interest in history was, and remains, very strong: what I wanted was to understand certain things better by understanding them psychoanalytically.

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With the passage of years, not all of Dicken's readers remained infatuated with his pathos. One generation's sublimity became another generation's kitsch.

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I decided that what I really wanted to do was to make my writing in history deeper, if that's the right word to use.…

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The ideas of theologians are refuted by their adversaries, the ideas of scientists are refuted by their followers.

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What interests me, and has always interested me, has been modernism.

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My definition of modernism took a while to develop.

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