Thucydides: An Introduction for the Common Reader is a book by Perez Zagorin.
Perez Zagorin was an American historian who specialized in 16th and 17th century English and British history and political thought, early modern European history, and related areas in literature and philosophy. From 1965 to 1990, he taught at the University of Rochester, New York, retiring as the... Joseph C. Wilson Professor of History Emeritus. Zagorin was born in Chicago, Illinois on May 29, 1920 to Solomon Novitz and Mildred Ginsburg Zagorin. He married the artist Honoré Desmond Sharrer on May 29, 1947. They had one son, Adam Zagorin, who currently works for Time Magazine and has two sons of his own. Zagorin's B.A. was from the University of Chicago; he earned both his M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1947 and 1952 respectively. At Harvard, Zagorin was a student of Wilbur Kitchener Jordan, Charles McIlwain and others. He taught history at Amherst College 1947-1949, at Vassar College 1951-1953, and reached the rank of full Professor at McGill University, Montreal, while teaching there 1955-1965.more
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