All we say the battle for American identity : a history in 15 speeches
For 250 years, we have debated what it means to be American. This question shaped the compromises in our Constitution and the arguments we've been having ever since--spawning abolitionism, secession, and civil war; populism, mass migration, and global leadership; movements for reform and the backlas...
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New York :
Random House,
[2026]
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Table of Contents:
- Part I. American foundations: Revolution to Civil War. Benjamin Franklin: Founding compromise ; Red Jacket: We have always lived here ; Maria Stewart: Knowledge is power ; Alexander Stephens: The cornerstone ; Abraham Lincoln: True and righteous
- Part II. What kind of nation: Radical republic to superpower. Frederick Douglass: Such things as human rights ; Anna Dickinson: Celebrity suffragette ; Mary Lease: Wall Street owns this country ; Louis Brandeis: Americanism ; Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Four freedoms
- Part III. Contested nation: Civil rights to MAGA. Martin Luther King and John F. Kennedy: An American dream ; Dolores Huerta: You cannot pretend that we do not exist ; Ronald Reagan: God and country ; Barack Obama: Breaking the racial stalemate ; Donald Trump: I will win for you.
