Excerpt from Remaking America Then there was that other dream, the dream of men like Wilson and Root, of Hughes and Borah, the dream that America was destined for peace, that America was different from the Old World and could escape the wars and bitter ness and' conflicts which had made European history a stirring but blood-spattered chapter in the martyrdom of man. This dream received its death-blow in 1918 and per ished utterly twenty-one years later when the triumphs of Hitler's Germany made the American people realize that their country had become a part of world politics and could not escape the universal destiny and duties of the planet. And finally, of course, there is the oldest American dream of all - Jefferson's dream of 'life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness' the idea of human freedom under democratic government the belief that liberty was necessarily more powerful than all the forces of human tyranny. That dream has not yet been surrendered and the test of our times, as in those of Lincoln, remains whether any government dedicated to these principles can long endure. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.