Arthur Herman is a conservativeAmerican historian of Anglo-American history. He often writes for National Review. In the 1990s he taught at George Mason University.His 2001 book How the Scots Invented the Modern World was a "New York Times" bestseller. Conservatism is a political philosophy that usually favors traditional values and strong foreign defense. ... A historian is someone who writes history, and history is a written accounting of the past. ... National Review (NR) is a biweekly magazine of political opinion, founded by author William F. Buckley Jr. ... George Mason University, GMU, or Mason is a public university in the United States. ... The New York Times is an internationally known daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed in the United States and many other nations worldwide. ...
Work
The Idea Of Decline In Western History, Free Press, 1997.
Joseph McCarthy : Reexamining the Life and Legacy of America's Most Hated Senator, Free Press, 1999.
How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe's Poorest Nation Created Our World and Everything in It, Crown, 2001.
To Rule the Waves : How the British Navy Shaped the Modern World, HarperCollins, 2004.
Oscar Herman was a native of Sweden to immigrated to the United States and became a citizen in 1904 (although the 1910 U.S. Census states he immigrated to the United States in 1905).
Stanley R. Herman was born on September 24, 1912 in Iowa and died at age 64 in August of 1977.
Carl Harold "Harry" Herman was born in August 1917 in Iowa, died in October of 1947 in Burlington, Des Moines County, Iowa, at age 30, and was buried in Aspen Grove Cemetery, Burlington, Des Moines County, Iowa.
ArthurHerman: And you have in the low you have in the highlands, you have a society which is dominated by warring clans who are engaged in constant internecine warfare and who live in a kind of systematic poverty of basically of a pastoral hunter/gatherer societies.
ArthurHerman: But its also his workers too, because what they bring even the poorest Scots who come to America what they bring is first of all a high rate of literacy, certainly by comparison to say, Irish immigrants, a much higher rate of literacy.
ArthurHerman: I can answer it in a slightly different way, and I would say that what the Scottish Enlightenment I would agree with what the Scots say themselves in the Eighteenth Century and that is is that it will go on this way because we have no choice.
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