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The Remarkable Thing Is that It Took This Long for Crisis to Come

Jon Meacham on why the founders anticipated our current moment, and how history can (mostly) guide us through

Today, Jon Meacham explains why American history is a perennial struggle—and why that struggle is not the work of a day (though it’d be really nice if it were).

In American Struggle: Democracy, Dissent, and the Pursuit of a More Perfect Union, Meacham assembles what he calls “the Star Wars bar scene of American History”: an anthology of documents from Fr…

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