Edward Merrill Root (1895–1973) was an American educator and poet devoted to anti-communist pursuits. Root was born in Baltimore, Maryland, the son of a congregational minister. In 1917 he graduated from Amherst College where he studied under Robert Frost.
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Man does not live by a turkey in every oven or a color TV set in every home. Man lives by faith and hope and love, by the star on the horizon, by the trumpet that will not call retreat.
—E. Merrill Root
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