The expansive definition of independence, with its obverse of defining community narrowly, is not new but it is very American and pre-dates our existence as a nation.
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Today's students deserve more than a few textbook paragraphs describing the fight against fascism before 1939 while the governments of the United States, England, and France encouraged its aggressions.
Joseph Patrick Kennedy, the paterfamilias of the Kennedy clan, is the only founder of a presidential family repeatedly examined in lengthy biographies and in numerous studies of his most famous progeny.
Bush might not have been transformational in his objectives or inspirational in his style, but he presided successfully over one of the most complex periods in the twentieth century.