Are today's journalists tomorrow’s historians..... Who are historians? The ones who read history? Or the ones who document it. And these two can’t be one and the same..... They possibly can't live in the same times.
I read on Google quote for the day, Winston Churchill said, “History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it”. I am sure he meant, he will feature in history texts of the future.... but how could he then possibly guarantee that he will be projected well? We have all read some of his work at some point. If I can remember he even won the Nobel Prize for The Second World War, which was obscenely long. But, all this still doesn't guarantee that history would be kind to him.
Churchill was a participant in the Second World War; historians need to be detached at least in principle... I am sure there will be things he must have written in that book that might be refuted in others.... so once again to the point; even though he did write history he couldn't guarantee that it was kind to him.
I think even in those days, as today; famous people would just say things for effect and attention.
I read on Google quote for the day, Winston Churchill said, “History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it”. I am sure he meant, he will feature in history texts of the future.... but how could he then possibly guarantee that he will be projected well? We have all read some of his work at some point. If I can remember he even won the Nobel Prize for The Second World War, which was obscenely long. But, all this still doesn't guarantee that history would be kind to him.
Churchill was a participant in the Second World War; historians need to be detached at least in principle... I am sure there will be things he must have written in that book that might be refuted in others.... so once again to the point; even though he did write history he couldn't guarantee that it was kind to him.
I think even in those days, as today; famous people would just say things for effect and attention.
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I wonder, does fame cost some a piece of their soul,like some Faustian deal?
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