Allen C. Guelzo vs. Gore Vidal
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Allen C. Guelzo
1953 – present
Allen Carl Guelzo is an American historian who is the Thomas W. Smith Distinguished Research Scholar at Princeton University, where he is also the director of the Initiative on Politics and Statesmanship at the James Madison Institute. He formerly was a professor of history at Gettysburg College.
"hat Reconstruction succeeded in doing: it helped us avoid a renewed outbreak of civil war ; it laid the legal and constitutional foundations for a more egalitar…"
Gore Vidal
1925 – 2012
Eugene Luther Gore Vidal was an American writer and public intellectual known for his cynical epigrammatic wit. His novels and essays criticized the social and sexual norms he perceived as driving American life. Vidal was heavily involved in politics, and unsuccessfully sought office twice as a Democratic Party candidate, first in 1960 to the United States House of Representatives, and later in 1982 to the United States Senate.
"Must one have a heart of stone to read The Ballad of Reading Gaol without laughing? And did not De Profundis plumb for all time the shallows of the most reporte…"
Connections
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