The Flag Was Still There: A History of the American Experiment in Five Anniversaries

A clear-eyed yet hopeful history of the United States, revisiting the state of the union every fifty years since America’s birth.

“Brilliantly written and illuminating.” —Douglas Brinkley, New York Times bestselling author of Silent Spring Revolution

America is the rare country that was founded on an idea, and it was a truly radical idea for its time: the belief that the people of a country could govern themselves.

The Flag Was Still There offers a unique new narrative of the American Experi...