Gabor Boritt - You don’t become a statesman unless you are first a

You don’t become a statesman unless you are first a good politician.

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Gabor Boritt, Hungarian Historian, Speech, American History Store, Gettysburg, PA, C-SPAN, August 19, 2001

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Gabor S. Boritt (born 1940 in Budapest, Hungary) is an American historian. He was the Robert Fluhrer Professor of Civil War Studies and Director of the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College. Born and raised in Hungary, he participated as a teenager in the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 against the Soviet Union before escaping to America, where he received his higher education and became a scholar of Abraham Lincoln and the American Civil War. He is the author, co-author, or editor of 16 books about Lincoln or the War. Boritt received the National Humanities Medal in 2008 from President George W. Bush.

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