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  • There were various different keys in which European history had tended to be written. One is the lyrical key, the idea that somehow, in Bretton-Woods in 1945, a bunch of well-intentioned men got together and said, "This can't go on; let's build a European Union." And it just wasn't like that.

    "Postwar". Interview With Julian Brookes, www.motherjones.com. December 20, 2005.