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Periodista y editor británico (1933-2019)
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William Davis fue periodista, locutor y editor. Nació en Alemania, pero llegó a Gran Bretaña en su adolescencia, trabajando para el Financial Times, Evening Standard y Guardian. Transmitió para la BBC y fue un presentador pionero de The Money Programme y The World at One. Se convirtió en editor de Punch y fue el fundador de la revista de a bordo de British Airways High Life. Fue presidente de la British Tourist Authority y del English Tourist Board en la década de 1990 y permaneció como comentarista, locutor y escritor activo hasta su muerte en febrero de 2019.
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“All peoples part with their myths reluctantly, and historians are at some risk when they try to dismantle those of the Confederacy.”
“Legalistic Southerners tried to view the Constitution as a contract. Unfortunately, that viewpoint breaks down when viewed as a lawyer views a contract. There are very few ways to legally break a contract unilaterally.”
“So long as the number of slave states was the same as or greater than the number of free states, then in the Senate the South had a check on the government.”
“The only substantial difference between them, and the one that divided them politically almost since birth, was their system of labor.”
“Thanks to slavery, in the South capital and labor were combined in nearly four million sweating field hands picking cotton and planting rice.”
“Confederates were terrified of what was happening to slavery.”
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