_PDF_ SUMMARY The Nation That Never Was: Reconstructing America's Story by Kermit Roosevelt III
COPY LINK: https://pdf.bookcenterapp.com/yumpu/B0B31XZQY2 SUMMARY The Nation That Never Was<u>NOTE</u>: This is not the original author's publication, but an independent work by Kelvin Moore. This is an EXCERPT PART which is awesome and an awesome summary of the whole book. It is NOT the complete book, but an in-depth rendition of it.<u>ABOUT THE BOOK</u>There’s a common story we tell about America: that our fundamental values as a country were stated in the Declaration of Independence, fought for in the Revolution, and made law in the Constitution. But, with the country increasingly divided, this story isn’t working for us anymore—what’s more, it’s not even true. As Kermit Roosevelt argues in this eye-opening reinterpretation of the American story, our fundamental values, particularly equality, are not part of the vision of the Founders. Instead, they were stated in Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address and were the hope of Reconstruction, when it was possible to envision the emergence of the nation committed to liberty and equality. We face a dilemma these days. We want to be honest about our history and the racism and oppression that Americans have both inflicted and endured. But we want to be proud of our country, too. In The Nation That Never Was, Roosevelt shows how we can do both those things by realizing we’re not the country we thought we wer
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SUMMARY The Nation That Never Was<u>NOTE</u>: This is not the original author's publication, but an independent work by Kelvin Moore. This is an EXCERPT PART which is awesome and an awesome summary of the whole book. It is NOT the complete book, but an in-depth rendition of it.<u>ABOUT THE BOOK</u>There’s a common story we tell about America: that our fundamental values as a country were stated in the Declaration of Independence, fought for in the Revolution, and made law in the Constitution. But, with the country increasingly divided, this story isn’t working for us anymore—what’s more, it’s not even true. As Kermit Roosevelt argues in this eye-opening reinterpretation of the American story, our fundamental values, particularly equality, are not part of the vision of the Founders. Instead, they were stated in Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address and were the hope of Reconstruction, when it was possible to envision the emergence of the nation committed to liberty and equality. We face a dilemma these days. We want to be honest about our history and the racism and oppression that Americans have both inflicted and endured. But we want to be proud of our country, too. In The Nation That Never Was, Roosevelt shows how we can do both those things by realizing we’re not the country we thought we wer
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