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The American Crisis, Part 6: Recalling the Great Election Upset of 1948 and the Power of the People

The American Crisis, Part Six

Recalling the Great Election Upset of 1948

The American Crisis, Part Five

On the Brink: Those whom the gods would destroy they first make President 

One of my early memories as a boy is the joy I felt whenever we crossed the border to visit our American relatives on the Great Plains. Something in the air was different, as if a cage had been opened and a great weight removed. The same freedom infused most Americans I met. There was nothing like it in Canada.