John Adams Aims to Become an American Cicero  The dominant political narrative of colonial American elites was the story of how the Roman orator Cicero put down the Catiline conspiracy to take over Rome. John Adams aspired to be the…Read more

RACE AND THE AMERICAN “WE”  Throughout the preceding chapters we have outlined the multiplicity of ways in which America’s trajectory toward economic equality, political comity, social cohesion, and cultural communitarianism combined to produce a clear upswing during the first two…Read more

• 1923–32 •  Wilson sailed to New Zealand in October 1923. Eight and a half years later, in the spring of 1932, he was back in England, falling dangerously in love with Enid Evans, and on the brink of cooking up his…Read more