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Bernard Devoto
American historian and author
Bernard Augustine DeVotowas an American historian, conservationist, essayist, columnist, teacher, editor, and reviewer. He was the author of a series of Pulitzer-Prize-winning popular histories of the American West and for many years wrote The Easy Chair, an influential column in Harper’s Magazine.
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Bernard Augustine DeVotowas an American historian, conservationist, essayist, columnist, teacher, editor, and reviewer. He was the author of a series of Pulitzer-Prize-winning popular histories of the American West and for many years wrote The Easy Chair, an influential column in Harper’s Magazine. DeVoto also wrote several well-regarded novels and during the 1950s served as a speech-writer for Adlai Stevenson. His friend and biographer, Wallace Stegner described DeVoto as “flawed, brilliant, provocative, outrageous, … often wrong, often spectacularly right, always stimulating, sometimes infuriating, and never, never dull.”
2 Quotes by Bernard Devoto
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Sure the people are stupid: the human race is stupid. Sure Congress is an inefficient instrument of government. But the people are not stupid enough to abandon representative government for any other kind, including government by the guy who knows.
Bernard DevotoAmerican historian and author
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The trouble with the sacred Individual is that he has no significance, except as he can acquire it from others, from the social whole.
Bernard DevotoAmerican historian and author