The American Experiment
Today is our 57th election of a President. This day, it is easy to be patriotic and admire democracy. We get to choose to admire from a distance or, up-close-and-personal stuck in a forever-long voting line at the local school. It is the other 1,460 days, between presidential elections, that provide a test of our resolve.
One way to become engaged is to dive into our collective history. Read the obvious best-sellers, but critically read the many, too many books that are less well known. They can provide a terrific primer on our social studies, our civics, our history.
Try, Irving Brandt, Allan Nevins, Roger Remini and Gordon Wood. Read something less sprawling like Peter Bernstein's Wedding of the Waters or The Island at the Center of the World by Russell Shorto.
Call it a civic duty. Being LinkedIn to our history means ramping up beyond the history forgotten from school. You can't fail with James MacGregor Burns: his shorter Running Alone or, his required The Vineyard of Liberty: The American Experiment. Discuss.
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