{"product_id":"sum-of-our-dreams-the","title":"Sum of Our Dreams, The","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn The Sum of Our Dreams, Louis P. Masur offers a sweeping yet compact history of America from its beginnings to the current moment.  For general readers seeking an accessible, single-volume account, one that challenges but does not overwhelm, and which distills and connects the major events and figures in the country's past in a single narrative, here is that book.  Evoking Barack Obama's belief that America remains the \"sum of its dreams,\" Masur locates\n\u003cbr\u003ethe origin of those dreams-of freedom, equality, and opportunity-and traces their progress chronologically, illuminating the nation's struggle over time to articulate and fulfill their promise.  Moving from the\n\u003cbr\u003eColonial Era, to the Revolutionary Period, the Early Republic, and through the Civil War, Masur turns his attention to Reconstruction, the Gilded Age, the Progressive Age, World War One, the Great Depression, World War Two, the Cold War, Civil Rights, Vietnam, and Watergate, and then laying out clearly and concisely what underlies the divisiveness that has characterized American civic life over the last forty years-and now more than ever. Above all, however, Masur lets the story of American\n\u003cbr\u003etell itself. Inspired by James Baldwin's observation that \"American history is longer, larger, more beautiful and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it,\" he expands our notion of that\n\u003cbr\u003ehistory while identifying its individual threads. The Sum of Our Dreams will be the new go-to single volume for anyone wanting a foundational understanding of the nation's past, and its present.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44084336165102,"sku":"9780190692575","price":55.83,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0630\/9612\/7726\/files\/9780190692575.jpg?v=1706252673","url":"https:\/\/bookland.com.au\/products\/sum-of-our-dreams-the","provider":"Book Land AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}