Every American an Innovator: How Innovation Became a Way of Life

A landmark cultural history that reveals how the relentless pursuit of innovation has transformed our society, our institutions, and our inner selves.

For half a century, innovation served as a universal good in an age of fracture. That consensus is cracking. While the imperative to innovate for a better future continues to fuel systemic change around the world, critics now assail innovation culture as an engine of inequality or accuse its do-gooders of woke groupthink. What happened? Drawin...