Charles Edward Montague was born in Willimantic, Connecticut. He graduated from Yale University in 1928 with a BS in Forestry and played football at the university during his senior year. After college, he worked for a few years as a forester, an accountant, an executive for the American Tobacco Company, and as a screenwriter. He returned to Yale to earn his PhD in political science
Montague began teaching at Yale in 1946, but left the university for good due to poor health. He died in New Haven on June 23, 1989. At the time of his death he was writing The Best of Both Worlds which was published posthumously by St.
Martins Press in 1990. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1978.
War hath no fury like a non-combatant.Charles Edward Montague
Patriotism has served, at different times, as widely different ends as a razor, which ought to be used in keeping your face clean and yet may be used to cut your own throat or that of an innocent person.Charles Edward Montague
