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Book: The Glory and the Dream: A Narrative History of America, 1932-1972
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  1. William Manchester _ The Glory and the Dream: A

    oceanography, meteorology, and upper-atmosphere physics,
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  2. William Manchester _ The Glory and the Dream: A

    The Jap," as MacArthur called the enemy-nearly everyone else called Japanese "Nips," short for "Dai Nippon," the"
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  3. William Manchester _ The Glory and the Dream: A

    Violence had brought the United States independence, freed the slaves, and first conquered the West and then tamed it. Now it had raised working men up from the industrial cellar. Labor might forget that and turn conservative, but for liberals to deny other oppressed groups the right to revolt would prove impossible. Thus were the seeds of later anguish planted in innocence, even in idealism.
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  4. William Manchester _ The Glory and the Dream: A

    when I call him a son of a bitch I am not using profanity, but am referring to the circumstances of his birth.
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  5. William Manchester _ The Glory and the Dream: A

    Above all, beware the crowd! The crowd only feels; it has no mind of its own which can plan. The crowd is credulous, it destroys, it consumes, it hates, and it dreams-but it never builds.
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  6. William Manchester _ The Glory and the Dream: A

    Let me first assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself-nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
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