American Elegy: Reflections on 250 Years of the Dis-United States of America
By Ed Simon
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By Ed Simon
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Before there was the United States, there was America. The former is a country, a nation, a geographic reality, but the latter is an idea. Invented more than discovered, “America” signified a revolutionary ideal of freedom, liberty, equality, and justice, what Tom Paine in Common Sense meant when he wrote that “We have it in our power to begin the world over again.”
Among the greatest expressions of that faith was the Declaration of Independence with its promise to forge a nation dedicated ...






















