How to Save America
Briefly

The war was a central part of their lives and provided the backdrop to my growing up. It was a frequent topic at the dinner table. My father became an academic and devoted much of his career to studying how democracies could be structured to resist the kind of antidemocratic movements that had taken hold in Italy in 1922 and in Germany a decade later. He never found a satisfactory answer.
Evil inheres in the human condition-an evil that can turn neighbors into traitors and collaborators and cultivate hatred to the point of exterminating an entire people. But the Americans who liberated a continent beset by two internecine wars, supported a massive economic reconstruction effort.
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