Quote by: Drew Gilpin Faust

For all its ubiquity and its universality, war offers the attraction of the extraordinary - the escape from the gray everyday, from the humdrum into higher things.

Drew Gilpin Faust

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Author Bio

  • NameDrew Gilpin Faust
  • DescriptionAmerican historian, college administrator and the President of Harvard University
  • AliasesCatharine Drew Gilpin
  • BornSeptember 18, 1947
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionHistorian
  • AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship; Time 100; Honorary Doctorate; Honorary Doctorate; Honorary Degree; Honorary Degree; Jefferson Lecture; Bancroft Prize; American History Book Prize