Top 6 Quotes & Sayings by Sean Wilentz

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American professor Sean Wilentz.

Last updated on April 15, 2025.

Robert Sean Wilentz is the George Henry Davis 1886 Professor of American History at Princeton University, where he has taught since 1979. His primary research interests include U.S. social and political history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He has written numerous award-winning books and articles including, most notably, The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln, which was awarded the Bancroft Prize and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.

American - Professor | Born: February 20, 1951

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Maya Jasanoff's Liberty's Exiles places the loyalist experience and the aftermath of the American Revolution in an entirely new light. Alongside the Spirit of 1776, Jasanoff gives us the Spirit of 1783, dedicated to remaking the mighty British Empire, and then offers a stunning reinterpretation of the Loyalists' complicated role in that remaking. Her meticulously researched and superbly written account is historical revision at its finest, and it affirms her place as one of the very finest historians of the rising generation.

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One of the reasons that any person writes anything is to try and keep his own sanity together.

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Reading to kids is to ordinary reading what jazz is to a string quartet.

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To say that poverty explains terror is to slander those caught in poverty who choose to lead worthy lives. [Terrorists] are not the oppressed, but they are the parasites of the oppressed.

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Politics is about who wins and loses. The rest is of marginal interest.

Sean Wilentz

I think that's what Dylan's trying to do: to create a space artistically where something else can take shape, can take life - where there's hope.

Sean Wilentz