Anna Grace Coates’s Reviews > These Truths: A History of the United States > Status Update

Every time my parents have said, “It wasn’t always like this” I’ve usually dismissed it. This book continually illuminates how correct my parents were. The role of intentional, planned partisanship and meticulously manipulative campaigns in creating an America so divisive is rather soul crushing.

I am realizing that I have no concept of time because what do you mean the age of industrialization took place before the civil war

Learning about how James Madison’s original belief that our republic could thrive because of its size slowly turning into doubt due to the deception of the people reminds me yet again that America’s greatest beauty and sharpest weakness is her size and all that encompasses.