Thomas J. Sugrue is the David Boies Professor of History and Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Not Even Past: Barack Obama and the Burden of Race and Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North.
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A powerful history of the making and unmaking of American democracy and global power, told in sweeping scope and intimate detail In the winter of 1936, Franklin Roosevelt remarked in a fireside chat, “I do not look upon these United States as a finis... SEE MORE