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Frederick Lewis Allen

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Frederick Lewis Allen Quotes

Total quotes: 3

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Frederick Lewis Allen

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Educated At: Harvard University

Nationality: United States Of America

Occupations: Journalist, Historian

Total quotes: 3

“He pictured the world, not as it was, but as he wished it to be. The optimist became the sentimentalist.”

— Frederick Lewis Allen, Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s

Tagged: strategy

“The explanation is simple. A disillusioned nation fed on cheap heroics and scandal and crime were revolting against the low estimate of human nature it had allowed itself to entertain.”

— Frederick Lewis Allen, Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s

Tagged: strategy

“After freedom, what next?”

— Frederick Lewis Allen, Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s

Tagged: Freedom, Life

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