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Even in his posthumously published articles Tony Judt always hits the mark:
"The railways were and remain the necessary and natural accompaniment to the emergence of civil society. They are a collective project for individual benefit."
Tony Judt, "Bring Back the Rails!", New York Review of Books, January 13, 2011
According to historian and geographer David Lowenthal, George Perkins Marsh, author of Man and Nature, kept his position as the first, and most enduring, American ambassador to Italy (1861-1882) "notwithstanding the scandalous leak of a secret dispatch flaying the Italian cabinet for reneging on promised reforms" (Introduction to Man and Nature, p. xxii, http://ow.ly/1...rWvYV).
