“It’s weird to find solace in the Civil War, or the Great Depression, or the beginning of World War Two, but my whole optimistic temperament depends on saying that we will get through it and emerge stronger.”
— Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, in an interview with the Financial Times.
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