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He was as important to the founding of a modern and multiethnic twentieth- and twenty-first century America as Thomas Jefferson and James Madison and Samuel Adams were to the creation of the republic in the eighteenth century. This is not hyperbole. It is fact—observable, discernible, undeniable fact.
Jon Meacham • His Truth Is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope
George Saunders
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Harrison Moore
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Adherents to this view can take inspiration from Ralph Ellison. There is an American Negro tradition, he wrote, “which teaches one to deflect racial provocation and to master and contain pain. It is a tradition which abhors as obscene any trading on one's own anguish for gain or sympathy; which springs not from a desire to deny the harshness of exi
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The Scholar's Stage • The Silicon Valley Canon: On the Paıdeía of the American Tech Elite
Michael Grossman
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As legal scholar Michelle Alexander outlines in The New Jim Crow, her bestselling account of the War on Drugs and its impact on the criminal justice system, more black men are currently under correctional control in the United States than were enslaved in 1850.
Rachel Monroe • Savage Appetites: Four True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession
A curb on the practice was enacted in 1917, after President Wilson had added a phrase to the American political lexicon by denouncing “a little group of willful men” (actually eleven senators, including La Follette and his fellow liberal George Norris) who had talked to death Wilson’s proposal to arm American merchantmen against German submarine at
... See moreRobert A. Caro • Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson III
