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Thursday, July 1, 2021

Biography Versus History

The historian frames a cosmos of happenings in which men are included only as event producers or event sufferers. The biographer explores the cosmos of a single being. History deals in generalizations about a time. Biography deals in the particulars of one person's life.

Paul Murray Kendall in Biography as High Adventure, edited by Stephen B. Oates, 1986

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