Out of Our Past: The Forces That Shaped Modern America by Carl N. Degler
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
Degler plots a largely sociological arc of American development seeing an at times painful but 'progressively' growing approach to an inclusive, guarantor society underpinned by by an unbreakable union of states offering ciitzen equality (settled by the Civil War after the spineless federal government that arose from the American Revolution) and an overt socialism that arose from the Great Depression. Degler looks back to a socialist Thirties and post-WWI unionism and prosperity from The Fifties see a future of a stronger central government offer more assurances.
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