This America
A Case For the Nation
Publication Details
Type:
Book
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
Published:
2019
Reading Details
Pages:
160
Reading History
1st read
August 10, 2019
Kansas City, Missouri (US)
Highlights
First Paragraph:
Nations are made up of people but held together by history, like wattle and daub or lath and plaster or bricks and mortar. For a generation, American history has been coming undone and the nation has been coming apart, the daub cracking, the plaster buckling, the mortar crumbling. This tragedy was foreseen.