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Daniel J(oseph) Boorstin

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"Our American past always speaks to us with two voices: the voice of the past, and the voice of the present. We are always asking two quite different questions. Historians reading the words of John Winthrop usually ask, What did they mean to him? Citizens ask, What do they mean to us? Historians are trained to seek the original meaning; all of us want to know the present meaning." - Copy to Clipboard

  --  Daniel J(oseph) Boorstin
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