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William Pfaff
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1928
- Works
- 11
Top works
- The irony of manifest destiny
- The Bullet's Song
- Condemned to freedom
- The future of the United States as a great power (Morgenthau memorial lecture on ethics & foreign policy)
- La IRA de Las Naciones
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1
- Total plays
- 2
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- VMD: Visual molecular dynamics
· 1996 · cited 62,917x
- Theory of the firm: Managerial behavior, agency costs and ownership structure
· 1976 · cited 44,815x
- Comparison of simple potential functions for simulating liquid water
· 1983 · cited 39,531x
- QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data
· 2010 · cited 30,942x
- Preparation of Graphitic Oxide
· 1958 · cited 28,681x
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Quotes
- “The accounts that history presents have to be paid. Past has to be reconciled with present in the life of a nation. History is an insistent force: the past is what put us where we are. the past cannot be put behind until it is settled with.”
- “America's problem is how to free itself from the grip of it's exhausted ideas.”
- “For four hundred years European civilization has dominated the world - for better or for worse. It is convenient, and flattering, for Americans to assume that this is all over; but it very rash to do so.”
- “Europeans believe in democracy - or, at least, in republican government - but they have considered the alternatives, and continue to do so, and that scandalizes Americans.”
- “We Americans really seem to be the only truly non-socialist economy on earth.”
- “The problems of elites is an old one for which Americans have found no solid answer.”
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- William
- Family name
- Pfaff
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Council Bluffs
- Place of death
- Paris
- Occupation
- writer
- Educated at
- University of Notre Dame
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Field of work
- political journalism
- Military rank
- soldier
- Official website
- www.williampfaff.com
- Image
- William Pfaff.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1928-01-01
- date of death
- 2015-01-01
- member of
- United States Army Special Forces
- cause of death
- myocardial infarction
- manner of death
- natural causes
- Commons category
- William Pfaff
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