“A culture is not only the language and the arts of a people. It is all their history, all their hopes for the future.”

The Corruptions of Society, p. 9 (See also: The American Dream..)
The Corrupt Society - From Ancient Greece To Present-Day America (1975)

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British lecturer, novelist, historian, poet and biographer 1911–1983

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