The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning. — George F. Kennan

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Mini who’s who:

George F. Kennan : American Historian
Born:  February 16, 1904
Died:  March 17, 2005