This country has had several foundings. This founding in between 1619 and 1776 is crucial to understanding the American character, perhaps moreso than the other two!
I’m reading your book. About 1/2 through at this moment. Just want to say it has been really enlightening about the way I think about political parties. Thanks again.
That's the plan. I think its important to help people see the larger patterns first before we get into the 60s in detail. Otherwise I find folks are very resistant to the idea that the 60s wasn't some sort of realignment, and the source of a lot of what was going on.