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WHEN ALLAN NEVINS died in 1971, his best friend Henry Steele Commager wrote a note to Nevins’s wife. Commager reminded Mary Nevins that her husband had not only been one of the leading and most prolific historians in America, but had also led an astonishing public career. “There is no one who can take his place,” Commager told her, “for his kind of scholar is pretty well a thing of the past; modern scholars are technicians who are afraid of big projects, or public enthusiasms; what is really at stake here is the attitude towards history, and modern historians have