Elizabeth D. Samet
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“Our national problem has not been ignoring the Civil War, but turning it into a kind of theme park in which nostalgia and mendacity have eclipsed the raw and unpleasant truth that one army fought, and lost, a battle for the liberty to enslave other human beings, while the other, full of imperfect men fighting for a variety of motives, secured the emancipation of those human beings and thereby preserved a political experiment underwritten by the idea of equality.”
― Looking for the Good War: American Amnesia and the Violent Pursuit of Happiness
― Looking for the Good War: American Amnesia and the Violent Pursuit of Happiness
“The notion that obedience dehumanizes those who render it is a popular cry of the philosophers of radical individualism, such as Thoreau, who are so important to America's myth of itself.”
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“We surrendered rather easily to yet another romantic notion: that meaning is to be found only in misery”
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