“Every professor says that what surprises them is how
little the new students remember about anything more than two or three years
ago. It was very revealing the first time I realized that a student had no
memory of the civil-rights movement or Vietnam. They live intensely in the now,
and there’s practically no ‘then’ that they have a workable knowledge of.” —Pulitzer
Prize-winning historian-journalist Garry Wills interviewed by Cal Fussman for “The Men of Our Time,” Esquire, October 2015
(Photo of Garry Wills by Lauren Gerson, taken on March
10, 2015 at the LBJ Presidential Library, where he was joining the Friends of
the LBJ Library to discuss his book, The Future of the Catholic Church with
Pope Francis.)
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