xii, 450 pages :illustrations ;25 cm
Includes index.
Promise and principle --Suffering and sorrow --Restoration and repair --Invention and ingenuity --Creation and culture --Becoming and belonging.
Pulitzer Prize-winning historians, diplomats, music legends, and sports giants explore the grand American experiment in democracy, culture, innovation, and ideas, revealing the setbacks, suffering, invention, ingenuity, and social movements that continue to shape our vision of what America is -- and what it can be.
1.Historians--United States--Interviews.2.National characteristics, American--History.Dynamic Details