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Taylor Branch
“Most unforgivable was that a nation founded on Madisonian principles allowed secret police powers to accrue over forty years, until real and imagined heresies alike could be punished by methods less open to correction than the Salem witch trials.”
(Page 919)”
Taylor Branch

“As American involvement in Vietnam deepened, the gap between the true nature of that commitment and the president’s depiction of it to the American people, the Congress, and members of his own administration widened. Lyndon Johnson, with the assistance of Robert S. McNamara and the Joint Chiefs of Staff, had set the stage for America’s disaster in Vietnam.”
H. R. McMaster

Fredrik Logevall
“By the time a settlement was reached, at the beginning of 1973, under terms no better than Washington could have had in 1963 or 1964 to 1965, fifty-eight thousand Americans, and between 1.5 and three million Vietnamese, lay dead.”
(Page 335)”
Fredrik Logevall, Choosing War: The Lost Chance for Peace and the Escalation of War in Vietnam

Robert Kagan
“Here again, the common assumption about the inevitability of liberalism has led to constant underestimation of the power of anti liberal sentiments in America, We simply assume that, with time, people become enlightened. Yet the views of white Southerners did not change: not in the 1870s, when they fought against Black equality; not in the 1920s, when the second Klan spread across the South like wildfire; not in the 1960s, when George Wallace spoke for millions when he declared “segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.” And not today when the unwarranted killing of Black people by police inspires for so many white Americans more sympathy for the police than for their victims.
(Page 91)”
Robert Kagan, Rebellion: How Antiliberalism Is Tearing America Apart – Again

Jon Meacham
“The biblical imagery is part of the American tradition, no matter what your personal beliefs are. The Old Testament, the New Testament, it is all woven into who we are, Christian, Jew, or whatever. Religious metaphors and religious language form a kind of common bond in America—you can think of it either in literal or literary terms. Even if you are basically secular, the ideals and principles that come out of religion are essentially what we all should share: what is the right thing to do, what is just, what is fair.
(Page 203)”
Jon Meacham, His Truth Is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope

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