Hillsa’s Reviews > A Leap in the Dark: The Struggle to Create the American Republic > Status Update

This was not a mesmerizing page turner, but it was very enlightening. Especially in these days for a Gen X person who thinks politics is currently at its worst. I now see how false that perception is. The concept of democracy struggled at the very start of the country and it was interesting to compare political invective and personal attacks in the public space now to those early days.