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Thucydides, an Athenian, wrote the history of the war between the Peloponnesians and the Athenians, he began at the moment that it broke out, believing that it would be a great war, and more memorable than any that had preceded it.

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Shelby Steele

Shelby Steele

Shelby Steele (born 1946, Chicago) is an American author, columnist, documentary film maker, and a research fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, specialising in the study of race relations, multiculturalism and affirmative action. He received a Ph.D. in English from the University of Utah, an M.A. in sociology from Southern Illinois University, and a B.A. in political science from Coe College.

In 1990, Steele received the National Book Critics Circle Award in the general non-fiction category for his book The Content of Our Character.

He won an Emmy and a Writers Guild Award for his 1991 documentary film with Frontline Seven Days in Bensonhurst.

His twin brother is Claude Steele.

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