Stephen Ambrose
Stephen Ambrose
Stephen Edward Ambrosewas an American historian and biographer of U.S. Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard Nixon. He was a longtime professor of history at the University of New Orleans and the author of many best selling volumes of American popular history...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionHistorian
Date of Birth10 January 1936
CityLovington, IL
CountryUnited States of America
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Neighbors are far better acoustic analyzers for determining the quality of their life versus any acoustic instrument left unattended by an expert.
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History is everything that has ever happened.
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It is through history that we learn who we are and how we got that way, why and how we changed, why the good sometimes prevailed and sometimes did not.
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You don't hate history, you hate the way it was taught to you in high school.
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It would not be possible to praises nurses too highly.
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I'm no politician. I'm an historian who has learned through a lifetime of studying that nothing in the world beats universal education.
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I thought Nixon was the worst President we had ever had, save only perhaps Andrew Johnson.
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Almost everything Truman did in foreign affairs I approve of.
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American is the first democratic nation-state.
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In 1945, there were more people killed, more buildings destroyed, more high explosives set off, more fires burning than before or since.
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Eisenhower had the clearest blue eyes. He would fix them on you. In my every interview with him, he would lock his eyes on to mine and keep them there.
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Dams have harmed our wildlife and made rivers less useful for recreation.
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Andrew Johnson was a Southerner generally who proclaimed that his native state of Tennessee was a country for white men.
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I was taught by professors who had done their schooling in the 1930s. Most of them were scornful of, even hated, big business.