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MAX LERNER – Author Quotes<\/div>\n

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\u201cA President is best judged by the enemies he makes when he has really hit his stride.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Max Lerner<\/strong>, American author & educator<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Education of Harry Truman\u201d (9 January 1949) The New York\u00a0<\/em>Star<\/em>; reprint in The Unfinished Country<\/em>, New York: Simon & Schuster, 1959, Part IV, p. 413<\/p>\n

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Extended excerpt<\/em><\/strong>: [First lines from newspaper essay] \u201cA President is best judged by the enemies he makes when he has really hit his stride<\/span>, and Truman\u2019s are now good enemies. Hearst accuses him of \u201csquandermania,\u201d John O\u2019Donnell says he is forcing a \u201cgalloping communism\u201d on the country, Arthur Krock is alarmed at the idea of the government going into steel and calls the program \u201cstate socialism.\u201d These are only the first pipings of what will soon swell into a chorus of shocked outrage.\u201d (p. 413)<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-search” add_icon=”true” title=”Source ISBN” tab_id=”1449531589797-29580b31-8c50094f-cf63a5bb-3573″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

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Source<\/em><\/strong><\/span>: Editor\u2019s copy \u2013 The Unfinished Country <\/em>(1959) Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) No. 638380186<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_tta_tabs style=”modern” shape=”square” active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-book” add_icon=”true” title=”Citation” tab_id=”1453315829087-ce67c619-0fbca5bb-3573″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

\u201cDo not confuse your vested interests with ethics. Do not identify the enemies of your privilege with the enemies of humanity.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Max Lerner<\/strong>, American author & educator<\/p>\n

\u201cPolitics and the Connective Tissue\u201d (1949) in Actions and Passions: <\/em>Notes on the Multiple Revolutions of Our Time<\/em>, New York: Simon & Schuster, pp. 12-13<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-plus-circle” add_icon=”true” title=”Context” tab_id=”1453315829475-7c82a017-1e62a5bb-3573″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

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Extended excerpt<\/em><\/strong>: \u201cDo not confuse your vested interests with ethics. Do not identify the enemies of your privilege with the enemies of humanity.\u201d (pp. 12-13)<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-search” add_icon=”true” title=”Source ISBN” tab_id=”1453315829682-63e8fade-cf4ca5bb-3573″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

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Source<\/em><\/strong><\/span>: Library \u2013 Actions and Passions<\/em> (1949) Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) No. 471645694<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1453316221301{margin-top: 0px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;}”][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_tta_tabs style=”modern” shape=”square” active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-book” add_icon=”true” title=”Citation” tab_id=”1453315828001-b5e2e52e-ea1ea5bb-3573″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

\u201cIdeas in politics are much like poetry: they need no inner logical structure to be effective.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Max Lerner<\/strong>, American author & educator<\/p>\n

\u201cHitler as Thinker\u201d (22 November 1939) The New Republic<\/em>, Vol. 101, No. 1303, p. 129, columns 1-2; online via New Republic archives, EBSCOhost [subscription service] access via www.newrepublic.com\/magazine#signin<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-plus-circle” add_icon=”true” title=”Context” tab_id=”1453315828385-86abfac4-79bfa5bb-3573″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Extended excerpt<\/em><\/strong> [Essay on German chancellor Adolf Hitler and Hitler’s book, Mein Kampf<\/em>]:<\/p>\n

\u201cWe must ride ourselves of the view that only logical ideas can be political weapons. Ideas in politics are much like poetry: they need no inner logical structure to be effective.<\/span> Edward Lear\u2019s nonsense verse merely extends a principle inherent in poetry as a whole. And Hitler is, in a sense, the Edward Lear of political thinking.\u201d (p. 129)<\/p>\n

Source notes<\/em><\/strong>: In the quote above, Lerner references English painter & author Edward Lear (1812-1888).\u00a0 Lear was known for his limericks and use of “nonsense words” to explore serious subjects like depression.<\/p>\n

Lerner\u2019s essay, “Hitler as a Thinker,” was also published in his 1939 book Ideas Are Weapons: The History and Uses of Ideas<\/em> (New York: Viking Press, 1939). The cited quote can be found on page 357 of this text edition.<\/p>\n

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Source link <\/em><\/strong>[Featured source \u2013 magazine]<\/span>: \u201cHitler as Thinker\u201d (22 November 1939) New Republic<\/em>; New Republic archive online via EBSCOHost [subscription service]: http:\/\/web.a.ebscohost.com\/ehost\/detail\/detail?vid=2&sid=99674ced-52f9-4889-bb15-2e9ace6aa473%40sessionmgr4009&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#AN=14984384&db=fjh<\/a><\/p>\n

Source <\/em><\/strong>[Featured source – text]<\/span>: Library \u2013 Ideas Are Weapons: The History and Uses of Ideas<\/em> (1939) Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) No. 264954<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_tta_tabs style=”modern” shape=”square” active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-book” add_icon=”true” title=”Citation” tab_id=”1449531591105-7edf5f39-feaa094f-cf63a5bb-3573″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

\u201cOf the many things we have done to democracy in the past, the worst has been the indignity of taking it for granted.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Max Lerner<\/strong>, American author & educator<\/p>\n

\u201cMask of Oligarchy\u201d (November 1938) It Is Later Than You Think<\/em>, New York: Viking Press, revised edition, February 1943, p. 87<\/p>\n

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Extended excerpt<\/em><\/strong>:[Essay \u2013 chapter four: \u2018Democracy: Mask and Face\u2019]:<\/p>\n

\u201cOf the many things we have done to democracy in the past, the worst has been the indignity of taking it for granted<\/span>. But out of the wrack of recent events has emerged a new sense of its attractiveness. We are living today on the thin edge of history, and that does an enormous amount to change our perspectives. (p. 87)<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-search” add_icon=”true” title=”Source ISBN” tab_id=”1449531592891-f39e055b-a66e094f-cf63a5bb-3573″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

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Source<\/em><\/strong><\/span>:\u00a0Library \u2013 It Is Later Than You Think: The Need for a Militant Democracy<\/em> (1943) Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) No. 317044251<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1453316221301{margin-top: 0px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;}”][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_tta_tabs style=”modern” shape=”square” active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-book” add_icon=”true” title=”Citation” tab_id=”1453315828001-b5e2e52e-ea1ea5bb-3573″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

\u201cP<\/strong>erhaps what we welcome most about death is the dark, and it is only when we have to face it in the full light of day and make our reckoning of it that it requires courage.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Max Lerner<\/strong>, American author & educator<\/p>\n

\u201cGorgon\u2019s Head\u201d (17 September 1956) The New York<\/em> Post<\/em>; reprint in The Unfinished Country<\/em>, New York: Simon & Schuster, 1959, Part I, p. 83<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-plus-circle” add_icon=”true” title=”Context” tab_id=”1453315828385-86abfac4-79bfa5bb-3573″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Extended excerpt<\/em><\/strong> [Final lines, newspaper essay]:<\/p>\n

\u201cI suspect the reason is that to face death is to be compelled to examine searchingly what you have made of life. And most of us would rather not look at that Gorgon\u2019s head. Bacon said that \u201cmen fear death as children fear to walk in the dark,\u201d but perhaps he was wrong – perhaps what we welcome most about death is the dark, and it is only when we have to face it in the full light of day and make our reckoning of it that it requires courage.<\/span>\u201d (p. 83)<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-search” add_icon=”true” title=”Source ISBN” tab_id=”1453315828572-dac97b48-68e0a5bb-3573″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

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Source<\/em><\/strong><\/span>: Editor\u2019s copy \u2013 The Unfinished Country <\/em>(1959) Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) No. 638380186<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_tta_tabs style=”modern” shape=”square” active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-book” add_icon=”true” title=”Citation” tab_id=”1449531591105-7edf5f39-feaa094f-cf63a5bb-3573″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

\u201cThe Russians train; they do not dare educate.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Max Lerner<\/strong>, American author & educator<\/p>\n

\u201cFour Fallacies of Our Schools\u201d (24 February 1958) The New York <\/em>Post<\/em>; reprint in The Unfinished Country<\/em>, New York: Simon & Schuster, 1959, Part II, p. 219<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-plus-circle” add_icon=”true” title=”Context” tab_id=”1449531591631-43861bc7-da28094f-cf63a5bb-3573″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Extended excerpt<\/em><\/strong> [Final lines of newspaper essay. Lerner was born in Russia & emigrated to the United States with his parents.]:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Russians have the capacity to gather all the current research and apply it systematically to their technology. But they are the last conceivable model for us to follow in education itself, which should lead to the stretching of the mind, not its hardening, and to the fulfillment of the personality, not its mutilation. The Russians train; they do not dare educate.<\/span>\u201d (p. 219)<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-search” add_icon=”true” title=”Source ISBN” tab_id=”1449531592891-f39e055b-a66e094f-cf63a5bb-3573″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

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Source<\/em><\/strong><\/span>: Editor\u2019s copy \u2013 The Unfinished Country <\/em>(1959) Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) No. 638380186<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1453316221301{margin-top: 0px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;}”][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_tta_tabs style=”modern” shape=”square” active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-book” add_icon=”true” title=”Citation” tab_id=”1453315828001-b5e2e52e-ea1ea5bb-3573″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

\u201cT<\/strong>he so-called \u201clessons\u201d of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Max Lerner<\/strong>, American author & educator<\/p>\n

\u201cHistory Is Written by the Survivors\u201d (November 1938) It Is Later Than You Think<\/em>, New York: Viking Press, revised edition, February 1943, epilogue, p. 255<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-plus-circle” add_icon=”true” title=”Context” tab_id=”1453315828385-86abfac4-79bfa5bb-3573″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Extended excerpt<\/em><\/strong> [Essay]:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe danger is that, having concluded that the long-run forces of history are on our side, we shall not stir ourselves to act within the framework of those forces and so translate tendencies into realities. We err if we act on impulse or for action\u2019s sake, with disregard of the lines of force discernible in history. But we err also if we trust blindly to the impersonal forces of history, whether the trust be that of the idealist who sees in the logic of events the divine triumph of truth, or the materialist who sees in it the ruthless march of technological imperatives. Actually the so-called \u201clessons\u201d of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors.<\/span>” (p. 255)<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-search” add_icon=”true” title=”Source ISBN” tab_id=”1453315828572-dac97b48-68e0a5bb-3573″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

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Source<\/em><\/strong><\/span>: Library \u2013 It Is Later Than You Think: The Need for a Militant Democracy<\/em> (1943) Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) No. 317044251<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_tta_tabs style=”modern” shape=”square” active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-book” add_icon=”true” title=”Citation” tab_id=”1449531591105-7edf5f39-feaa094f-cf63a5bb-3573″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

\u201cThe turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Max Lerner<\/strong>, American author & educator<\/p>\n

\u201cFaubus and Little Rock: Scares Are for the Young\u201d (23 September 1957) The New York<\/em> Post<\/em>; reprint in The Unfinished Country<\/em>, New York: Simon & Schuster, 1959, Part IV, pp. 538-539<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-plus-circle” add_icon=”true” title=”Context” tab_id=”1449531591631-43861bc7-da28094f-cf63a5bb-3573″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Extended excerpt<\/em><\/strong> [Newspaper essay.]:<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is an education in itself \u2013 perhaps a better education than the schoolbooks will ever be able to give. The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.<\/span>\u201d (pp. 538-539)<\/p>\n

Source note<\/em><\/strong>: <\/em>In the essay cited above, Lerner was referencing contemporary news related to American school desegregation. Earlier that same month, African American high school student Dorothy Counts withdrew from an all-white public school after enduring four days of intense physical and verbal harassment and threats. At the time Lerner’s article was published, another group of students known as the “Little Rock Nine” were also facing racist mobs while attending class at Little Rock Central High School.<\/p>\n

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Source<\/em><\/strong><\/span>: Editor\u2019s copy \u2013 The Unfinished Country <\/em>(1959) Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) No. 638380186<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1453316221301{margin-top: 0px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;}”][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_tta_tabs style=”modern” shape=”square” active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-book” add_icon=”true” title=”Citation” tab_id=”1453315828001-b5e2e52e-ea1ea5bb-3573″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

\u201cT<\/strong>he way to prevent war is to bend every energy toward preventing it, not to proceed by the dubious indirection of preparing for it.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Max Lerner<\/strong>, American author & educator<\/p>\n

\u201cOn Peacetime Military Training\u201d (1949) in Actions and Passions: <\/em>Notes on the Multiple Revolutions of Our Time<\/em>, New York: Simon & Schuster, p. 335<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-plus-circle” add_icon=”true” title=”Context” tab_id=”1453315828385-86abfac4-79bfa5bb-3573″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Extended excerpt<\/em><\/strong> [Essay]:<\/p>\n

\u201cI say that the way to prevent war is to bend every energy toward preventing it, not to proceed by the dubious indirection of preparing for it.<\/span>\u201d (p. 335)<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-search” add_icon=”true” title=”Source ISBN” tab_id=”1453315828572-dac97b48-68e0a5bb-3573″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

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Source<\/em><\/strong><\/span>: Library \u2013 Actions and Passions<\/em> (1949) Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) No. 471645694<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_tta_tabs style=”modern” shape=”square” active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-book” add_icon=”true” title=”Citation” tab_id=”1449531591105-7edf5f39-feaa094f-cf63a5bb-3573″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

\u201cWe mold our institutions and are molded by them. We are the hammer and the anvil. Civilization today is a death dance because of the accumulated weight of idiot institutions. Our task is the heroic one of changing and directing those institutions so that their weight will support us, instead of crushing us.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Max Lerner<\/strong>, American author & educator<\/p>\n

\u201cWasteland\u201d (November 1938) It Is Later Than You Think<\/em>, New York: Viking Press, revised edition, February 1943, pp. 57-58<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-plus-circle” add_icon=”true” title=”Context” tab_id=”1449531591631-43861bc7-da28094f-cf63a5bb-3573″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Extended excerpt <\/em><\/strong>[Essay \u2013 Chapter two: \u2018Civilization is a Death Dance\u2019]:<\/p>\n

\u201cAre you optimistic or pessimistic about the future?\u201d someone asks, as though he were asking: \u201cAre you bullish or bearish about the market?\u201d The only answer can be that, if we have as little control over our institutions as an outsider has over the fluctuations of the market, then we are all lost. We mold our institutions and are molded by them. We are the hammer and the anvil. Civilization today is a death dance because of the accumulated weight of idiot institutions. Our task is the heroic one of changing and directing those institutions so that their weight will support us, instead of crushing us.<\/span>\u201d (pp. 57-58)<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-search” add_icon=”true” title=”Source ISBN” tab_id=”1449531592891-f39e055b-a66e094f-cf63a5bb-3573″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

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Source<\/em><\/strong><\/span>: Library \u2013 It Is Later Than You Think: The Need for a Militant Democracy<\/em> (1943) Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) No. 317044251<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1453316221301{margin-top: 0px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;}”][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_tta_tabs style=”modern” shape=”square” active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-book” add_icon=”true” title=”Citation” tab_id=”1453315828001-b5e2e52e-ea1ea5bb-3573″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

\u201cW<\/strong>hen evil acts in the world it always manages to find instruments who believe that what they do is not evil but honorable.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Max Lerner<\/strong>, American author & educator<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Case of the Wolf Whistle\u201d (25 September 1955) The New York <\/em>Post<\/em>; reprint in The Unfinished Country<\/em>, New York: Simon & Schuster, 1959, Part IV, p. 517<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-plus-circle” add_icon=”true” title=”Context” tab_id=”1453315828385-86abfac4-79bfa5bb-3573″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Extended excerpt<\/em><\/strong> [Newspaper essay, referencing the murder of Emmett Till and subsequent trial of the men who killed him.]:<\/p>\n

\u201cAs for the other jurors and the two men, and the wife who was the cause of it all, what can we say except that when evil acts in the world it always manages to find instruments who believe that what they do is not evil but honorable.<\/span> The capacity for self-delusion is a built-in part of the psychosis.\u201d (p. 517)<\/p>\n

Source note<\/em><\/strong>: Lerner is referring to the Emmett Till murder trail verdict. J.W. Milam and Roy Bryant, had kidnapped, beaten & murdered 14 \u2013year-old Emmett Till after Till allegedly whistled at Bryant\u2019s wife. Despite amble evidence, the local, all-white jury ruled that Bryant & Milam were \u2018not guilty\u2019 and they were set free. Just a few months after the verdict & Lerner\u2019s column, Milam & Bryant \u2013 now protected against prosecution by U.S. double jeopardy law – admitted to killing Till and dumping his body in a river.<\/p>\n

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Source<\/em><\/strong><\/span>: Editor\u2019s copy \u2013 The Unfinished Country <\/em>(1959) Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) No. 638380186<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\n

Resources<\/h4>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css_animation=”none” el_class=”Wrapper-Author-Resources”]Learn more about Max Lerner<\/strong><\/span>| Here are a few good places to start –<\/p>\n