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Author Roosevelt, Kermit, 1971- author.

Title The nation that never was : reconstructing America's story / Kermit Roosevelt III.

Publication Info. Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2022.

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Location Call No. Status
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  342.7302 ROOSEVELT    Check Shelf
 Simsbury Public Library - Non Fiction  342.7302 ROOSEVELT    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  342.73 RO    Check Shelf
Description 250 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Stories of America -- Questioning the standard story: dissenters -- The exclusive Declaration -- The ambiguous Revolution -- The geostrategic Constitution -- The story of continuity -- The march of the Declaration -- Why we tell the standard story -- Why we shouldn't tell the standard story -- Magic tricks and revolutions -- Why, how, and who we are -- Redemption songs: inclusive equality and exclusive individualism in modern America -- The better story.
Summary "One standard story about America is rooted in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. Another story concerns America's moment of reckoning after the Civil War, when it was possible to believe that the country would transcend its racist roots. Kermit Roosevelt III argues here that today, with the country increasingly riven along violent divides, we can find a path forward by shifting our benchmarks from the first story, which fostered the Confederacy, to the second. America doesn't need to find a new usable past; it already has one: we don't live in the Founders' America-we live in Lincoln's"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject United States. Declaration of Independence.
Constitutional history -- United States.
Slavery -- United States.
Equality -- United States.
Declaration of Independence (United States) (OCoLC)fst01356069
Constitutional history. (OCoLC)fst00875777
Equality. (OCoLC)fst00914456
Slavery. (OCoLC)fst01120426
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
ISBN 9780226817613 (cloth)
022681761X (cloth)
9780226817620 (ebook)
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