E.B. White | Uncommon Sense
“Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.” —E.B. White (July 11, 1899–October 1, 1985) This celebrated writer and longtime Mainer lived through some of the nation’s most tumultuous times—the Great Depression and two world wars, not to mention the Cold War and […]
E.B. White
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“Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.”
—E.B. White (July 11, 1899–October 1, 1985)
This celebrated writer and longtime Mainer lived through some of the nation’s most tumultuous times—the Great Depression and two world wars, not to mention the Cold War and Watergate—yet held a deep, almost joyous faith in its founding principles of freedom and democracy. In 2019 his granddaughter, Martha White, collected more than 50 of White’s essays, letters, and poems into a book calledOn Democracy; published by HarperCollins, it is now out in paperback.
