(series: the book i just finished)
the politically incorrect guide to american history.
the closing sentences sum up the book so well:
"So much for self-government, the principle on which the War for Independence had been based. As we have seen, the Framers of the Constitution had expressly sought to avoid precisely this: a federal government whose own power went essentially uncontested, while it struck down perfectly constitutional state laws that it happened not to like. And Americans, by and large, do not know enough of their own history to be able to challenge any of it, or even to realize that a problem exists."
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