This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. When Abraham Lincoln made this statement in his first inaugural address, he was voicing a theory of government little understood by most of the world at that time
More than a decade has passed since the first adition of this book appeared. In several ways the years since 1947 have been disillusioning.
On the twenty-fifth day of April in the year 1945 advancing units of the American and Russian Armies met in the middle of Europe, along the banks of the Elbe River, near the German town of Torgau.