CHAPTER 2

Building a Community of Purpose

The movements . . . are connected in all their parts. If errors have been committed, they ought to be corrected; if the policy is sound, it ought to be supported. It is by a thorough knowledge of the whole subject that [people] are enabled to judge correctly of the past and to give a proper direction to the future.

—President James Monroe

Second Inaugural Address, March 5, 1821

Colditz Castle, not far from Leipzig and Dresden, Germany, sits on a hilltop overlooking a tributary of the River Elbe some 300 feet below. Built originally in 1046 to be a royal hunting lodge and partially burned down some 60 years later, the castle has been reconstructed, modified, and used for a range of purposes over its history. ...

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