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Richard Hofstadter
American historian and public intellectual.
Born August 6th, 1916 in Buffalo. [ref]
Died October 24th, 1970 at 54 years old in New York City (leukemia). [ref]
Occupations
historian, university teacher
Wikipedia
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live. Marcus Aurelius