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“A lot of it was, you know, you look for moments where, for instance, we were dependent on Abraham Lincoln making sure that the slaves were freed or John Kennedy bringing civil rights, or the first one I wrote about, George Washington trying to stop the British from invading and ending this country before it even began. Those were turning points where, if you had not had a president stepping up to the plate, if there wasn't a story like that, we would not be here.”

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Michael Beschloss
Michael Beschloss

Michael Beschloss is an American historian renowned for his in-depth research into modern American history. His writings cover a range of U.S. presidents from Franklin D. Roosevelt to George W. Bush. more

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