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"The United States is the world's best hope, but if you fetter her in the interests and quarrels of other nations.you will destroy her powerful good, and endanger her very existence." - Henry Cabot Lodge (1919) This autobiography of Henry Cabot Lodge, the American politician and author, was published during his fourth term in the Senate. It covers, as the title indicates, his pre-political years - everything from his first memories and boyhood, experience of the Civil War, years spent in Europe, career at Harvard, and editorship of the North American Review.