On America: How to Understand the Legacy of 1776

A timely volume for America250 that illuminates what America means—and what it means to be an American.

As Americans mark the semiquincentennial of their republic’s birth, they are deeply divided over the nature and meaning of the American Founding.

Does the United States rest on an intrinsically racist basis, as is now so often claimed? Did the Declaration of Independence commit the United States to a perpetual revolution aimed at liberating the American peop...