Made in America: The Patriots, Ideas, and Turning Points Behind 250 Years of National Life

The whole American story, told like a story. Two hundred and fifty years of patriots, ideas, and turning points, in one sweeping national narrative.Most history books are either too dry to finish or too partisan to trust. This one is neither. It is the living drama of the people who built and rebuilt America, from the Revolution to the present, written to be read rather than studied, and balanced across the left, the right, and everyone in between.You will meet the famous and the forgotten: the founders who declared that all are created equal, the abolitionists and soldiers who paid for that promise in blood, the immigrants who remade the nation, the workers and reformers who fought to share its wealth, and the marchers who finally forced the country to honor its own words. The story is honest about the hard parts, slavery, conquest, and exclusion, and generous about the achievements, because both are true, and both belong to all of us.Inside this book:The founding and the bold promise the founders themselves could not keepThe Civil War, emancipation, and the long, unfinished struggle for equalityThe rise of an industrial giant, a global superpower, and a digital nationHow the same arguments, over freedom, government, and who counts as a full American, run from Hamilton and Jefferson to todayThis is a history to make you proud of your country without lying to you, written for the curious reader who wants the sweep and the human drama, not a textbook of dates and names. Published for the nation's 250th birthday.You will close the book with a richer sense of what actually built America, and why its story belongs to more than one side. Read more