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"A vibrant, and essential history of America's unending, enraging and utterly compelling struggle since its founding to live up to its own best ideals ... It's both a cause for hope, and a call to arms."--Jane Mayer, author Dark Money. From historian and author of the popular daily newsletter LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN, a vital narrative that explains how America, once a beacon of democracy, now teeters on the brink of autocracy -- and how we can turn back.. In the midst of the impeachment crisis of 2019, Heather Cox Richardson launched a daily Facebook essay providing the historical background of the daily torrent of news. It soon turned into a newsletter and its readership ballooned to more than 2 million dedicated readers who rely on her plainspoken and informed take on the present and past in America.