"World War II, the atomic bomb, the Cold War, made it hard for Americans to continue their optimism." ― Stephen Ambrose Topic(s): War More From Stephen Ambrose "I was taught by professors who had done their schooling in the 1930s. Most of them were scornful of, even hated, big business." "You don’t hate history, you hate the way it was taught to you in high school." "History is everything that has ever happened." More In War "The real war will never get in the books."― Walt Whitman "Have you ever thought that war is a madhouse and that everyone in the war is a patient?"― Oriana Fallaci "With the end of the cold war, all the ‘isms’ of the 20th century – Fascism, Nazism, Communism and the evil of apartheid-ism – have failed. Except one. Only democracy has shown itself true the help of all mankind."― Jack Kemp