In this unique compilation by Pulitzer Prize-winner David Halberstam, the key issues of what has shaped America are discussed in the essays of some of our nation's leading historians and writers, including Walter Cronkite, John Gregory Dunne, Louis Auchincloss, Joan Didion, and Mary Gordon. Each chapter provides long-sought-after and often surprising answers to questions of how today's America emerged and where the country is headed.
"Best-selling author and Pulitzer winner Halberstam brings together a powerhouse list of journalists and scholars to consider why America, 'for all its flaws, for all the things I dissent from, remains so powerful a beacon to so many of the less favored of the world'...This beautiful volume makes a wonderful gift for patriots of all stripes.—Publishers Weekly
