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Americans have come to question whether our tinkering spirit has survived the pressures of ruthless corporate organization and bottom-line driven caution

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but with constant struggle rather than satisfaction

from Stéphane Charbonnier

exquisite moment just before we step into adulthood (Ann Patchett)

The Half Has Never Been Told nora kelly Americans have come to questionThe classic history demonstrating that America's economic supremacy was built on the backs of enslaved people. "Gripping." New York Times A stinging indictment of slavery. NPR Books? Americans tend to cast slavery as a pre modern institutionthe nation's original sin, perhaps, but isolated in time and divorced from America's later success. But to do so robs the millions who suffered in bondage of their full legacy. As historian Edward E. Baptist