America is a nation created by all the hopeful wanderers of Europe…

America is a nation created by all the hopeful wanderers of Europe, not out of geography and genetics, but out of purpose.

Theodore H. White

1961

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American character America

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1961

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Theodore H. White

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White, Theodore H. The Making of the President 1960. Atheneum Publishers, 1961, ch. 15.

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