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The former Allies had blundered in the past by offering Germany too little, and offering even that too late, until finally Nazi Germany had become a menace to all mankind.

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History is never above the melee. It is not allowed to be neutral, but forced to enlist in every army.

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History is the sextant of states which, tossed by wind and current, would be lost in confusion if they could not fix their position.

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If history were a photograph of the past it would be flat and uninspiring. Happily, it is a painting; and, like all works of art, it fails of the highest truth unless imagination and ideas are mixed with the paints.

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My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.
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Born: May 20, 1890
Died: March 5, 1971 (aged 80)
Bio: Joseph Allan Nevins was an American historian and journalist, renowned for his extensive work on the history of the Civil War and his biographies of such figures as Grover Cleveland, Hamilton Fish, Henry Ford, and John D.
Known for:
  1. The gateway to history (1938)
  2. A pocket history of the United States (1942)
  3. Fremont, pathmarker of the West (1939)
  4. America, the Story of a Free People (1943)
  5. Ordeal of the Union (1947)

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