“America represented to my father, as Lincoln put it, "the last, best hope of earth."”

— Peter W. Schramm

I would like to be able to say that this made my father a remarkable man for his time and his circumstances. For, in many ways, he truly was a wonder. But this is not one of those ways. Among the Hungarians I knew—aside from those who were true believers in the Communists—this was the common sense of the subject. It was self-evident to them.
"Born American, But in the Wrong Place" (2006)

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