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Kermit Roosevelt III The Nation That Never Was (Paperback)
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- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Book Title
- Nation That Never Was : Reconstructing America's Story
- Publication Name
- The Nation That Never Was
- Title
- The Nation That Never Was
- Subtitle
- Reconstructing America's Story
- ISBN-10
- 0226829510
- EAN
- 9780226829517
- ISBN
- 9780226829517
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Release Year
- 2023
- Release Date
- 17/10/2023
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.7in
- Item Length
- 9in
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 13 Oz
- Genre
- History, Political Science
- Topic
- Constitutions, United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), Commentary & Opinion
- Publication Year
- 2023
- Number of Pages
- 256 Pages
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Our idea of the Founders' America and its values is not true. We are not the heirs of the Founders, but we can be the heirs of Reconstruction and its vision for equality. There's a common story we tell about America: that our fundamental values as a country were stated in the Declaration of Independence, fought for in the Revolution, and made law in the Constitution. But, with the country increasingly divided, this story isn't working for us anymore--what's more, it's not even true. As Kermit Roosevelt argues in this eye-opening reinterpretation of the American story, our fundamental values, particularly equality, are not part of the vision of the Founders. Instead, they were stated in Lincoln's Gettysburg Address and were the hope of Reconstruction, when it was possible to envision the emergence of the nation committed to liberty and equality. We face a dilemma these days. We want to be honest about our history and the racism and oppression that Americans have both inflicted and endured. But we want to be proud of our country, too. In The Nation That Never Was , Roosevelt shows how we can do both those things by realizing we're not the country we thought we were. Reconstruction, Roosevelt argues, was not a fulfillment of the ideals of the Founding but rather a repudiation: we modern Americans are not the heirs of the Founders but of the people who overthrew and destroyed that political order. This alternate understanding of American identity opens the door to a new understanding of ourselves and our story, and ultimately to a better America. America today is not the Founders' America, but it can be Lincoln's America. Roosevelt offers a powerful and inspirational rethinking of our country's history and uncovers a shared past that we can be proud to claim and use as a foundation to work toward a country that fully embodies equality for all.
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Publisher
University of Chicago Press
ISBN-10
0226829510
ISBN-13
9780226829517
eBay Product ID (ePID)
21059339730
Product Key Features
Book Title
Nation That Never Was : Reconstructing America's Story
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Constitutions, United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), Commentary & Opinion
Publication Year
2023
Genre
History, Political Science
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
0.7in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
13 Oz
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The problem, argues Roosevelt, is that tying our modern egalitarian commitments to the Declaration and the founding is to say, in no uncertain terms, that our values can survive, even thrive, in a world of profound inequality and injustice., Roosevelt argues that the conventional story of the United States, which credits the Founders for inaugurating the American project, is false. Equality, he contends, had no place in their vision. Rather, it was Reconstruction, which followed the Civil War and pursued the ideals of liberty and equality, that forged the nation Americans today inherit., Astute textual analysis, careful historical research, and a deep commitment to social justice make this an inspiring reexamination of America's past., In The Nation That Never Was, Roosevelt argues that the Fourteenth Amendment is at the heart of our contemporary constitutional identity, and he is right to stress the revolutionary nature of the Amendment and its divergence--not convergence--from the political theory of the Declaration. He understands that the history we need to know to move forward as a country is that of secession, Reconstruction, and the post-Reconstruction era., Roosevelt proposes that we . . . attempt a national enterprise to atone for our original sin through targeted investment in Black and other marginalized communities, which 'offers the possibility of a real transformation.' . . . [The book is] a novel way of reading our founding documents and revising them as both law- and nation-building myths., Roosevelt has written a truly extraordinary book. Instead of a sometimes fatuous 'audacity of hope,' he offers something much tougher to read and to come to terms with: the audacity of a fearless confrontation with the American past (and its possible future). He persuasively argues that we must liberate ourselves from our sentimentalized attachment to 'the Founders' and even to the Declaration of Independence, which he audaciously reinterprets. We should instead define our national identity around the promises (and challenges) of Reconstruction and the aspiration, yet unachieved, for a genuine regime change to replace the 'Slaveholders' republic' founded on white supremacy that was the aftermath of secession from the British Empire and the drafting of the 1787 Constitution. This book will undoubtedly be controversial. It deserves intense discussion, for if Roosevelt is right, nothing less than the future of the United States is at stake., In this brilliant book, Roosevelt asks us to trade in our standard story of America, based on founding myths about the Declaration of Independence, for a different, more complicated, and yet more hopeful story of Reconstruction. Like the Reconstruction framers, we too can build on the wreckage of the past to achieve justice not only for ourselves but for everyone, and help create the America that is to come., Kermit Roosevelt III illuminates tumultuous today by examining the contentious beginning. With The Nation That Never Was: Reconstructing America's Story , he thoughtfully explains our growing confusion as to what the creation meant and means.
Table of Content
Introduction 1 Stories of America 2 Questioning the Standard Story: Dissenters 3 The Exclusive Declaration 4 The Ambiguous Revolution 5 The Geostrategic Constitution 6 The Story of Continuity 7 The March of the Declaration 8 Why We Tell the Standard Story 9 Why We Shouldn't Tell the Standard Story 10 Magic Tricks and Revolutions 11 Why, How, and Who We Are 12 Redemption Songs: Inclusive Equality and Exclusive Individualism in Modern America 13 The Better Story Bibliographical Essay Acknowledgments Notes
Copyright Date
2022
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