The path from Jim Crow to Donald Trump and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America
Heather Cox Richardson offers an eloquent history of the negation of the American idea, with clear lessons for the November election. Heather Cox Richardson’s How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America is not principally about that war. Instead, it is a broad sweep of American history on the theme of the struggle between democracy and oligarchy – between the vision that “all men are created equal” and the frequency with which power has accumulated in the hands of a few, who have then sought to thwart equality. What...
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