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1902–1983 United States

Thomas Andrew Bailey (December 14, 1902 – July 26, 1983) was an American historian based at Stanford University, who specialised in diplomatic history. His best-known work may be The American Pageant.

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Too many historical writers are the votaries of cults, which, by definition are dedicated to whitewashing warts and hanging halos.

Essays Diplomatic and Undiplomatic of Thomas A. Bailey (1969)

Vietnam is the dead albatross around Johnson's neck that may pull him down.

Too many so-called historians are really 'hysterians'; their thinking is more visceral than cerebral. When their duties as citizens clash with their responsibilities as scholars, Clio frequently takes a back seat.

Essays Diplomatic and Undiplomatic of Thomas A. Bailey (1969)

The two-thirds rule [of the Senate], which can be changed only by constitutional amendment, will no doubt continue for a long time to come. Like monogamy, it is not completely satisfactory, but, like monogamy, it has won general if somewhat grudging acquiescence.

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