Mises Daily
Author:
Harry Elmer Barnes
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[Chapter 1 of Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace , 1953] The First World War and American intervention therein marked an ominous turning point in the history of the United States and of the world. Those who can remember “the good old days” before 1914 inevitably look back to those times with a very definite and justifiable feeling of nostalgia.