Thursday, September 14, 2006

My Favorite Romanian

(No, Not Dracula)




Eugen Weber and reruns of his UCLA history lectures on late night public access rock! His scanty web page amuses too:

Fields of interest: Modern European History...intellectual history, where comprehensible.

Reminds me of that great book by Paul Johnson, The Intellectuals--best line pulled from Mommy Marx's diary:
I wish Karl would spend less time writing about capital and more accumulating it.