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How did we get here? : from Theodore Roosevelt to Donald Trump

How did we get here? : from Theodore Roosevelt to Donald Trump

Book 2020

"The struggle to preserve the Republic has never been easy or without perils. The rise of conflicting political parties, which the founders opposed, and President John Adams' Alien and Sedition Acts repressing First Amendment rights made Franklin's observation at the conclusion of the Constitutional Convention--"a republic, if you can keep it"--seem prescient. In the twentieth century, America endured numerous struggles: economic depression, Worl...