How could Eisenhower—an otherwise brave and decent man—leave Marshall hanging like that? How could he live with himself? The answer is the same way that we all do it. By not even thinking about it at all. By telling ourselves nothing that can be done. By telling ourselves that they’ll understand…because they’d do the same thing in our position. By telling ourselves it’s for the greater good. We put the small town where we’re from in the rearview. We break away from the people who discovered us now that we’re big shots. We leave
