In The Sum of Our Dreams, Louis P. Masur offers a sweeping yet
compact history of America from its beginnings to the current
moment. For general readers seeking an accessible, single-volume
account, one that challenges but does not overwhelm, and which
distills and connects the major events and figures in the country's
past in a single narrative, here is that book. Evoking Barack
Obama's belief that America remains the "sum of its dreams," Masur
locates the origin of those dreams-of freedom, equality, and
opportunity-and traces their progress chronologically, illuminating
the nation's struggle over time to articulate and fulfill their
promise. Moving from the Colonial Era, to the Revolutionary Period,
the Early Republic, and through the Civil War, Masur turns his
attention to Reconstruction, the Gilded Age, the Progressive Age,
World War One, the Great Depression, World War Two, the Cold War,
Civil Rights, Vietnam, and Watergate, and then laying out clearly
and concisely what underlies the divisiveness that has
characterized American civic life over the last forty years-and now
more than ever. Above all, however, Masur lets the story of
American tell itself. Inspired by James Baldwin's observation that
"American history is longer, larger, more beautiful and more
terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it," he expands
our notion of that history while identifying its individual
threads. The Sum of Our Dreams will be the new go-to single volume
for anyone wanting a foundational understanding of the nation's
past, and its present.
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