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Tomorrow in America: Thinking Radically About Our Past and for Our Future
Tomorrow in America Thinking Radically About Our Past and for Our Future Author:John Gibson Tomorrow in America looks to the future by way of the past and the Reconstruction Era's Thaddeus Stevens. It presents Stevens as the "final founder and first re-founder" of the American Republic, because he was foremost in preparing the society of equal rights and opportunities that we believe in today. We think of Lincoln but l... more »ike Stevens. The author argues that feudalism, socialism, and capitalism have failed and that our commercially-dominated culture has us steeped in nihilism. Drawing upon Stevens's non-ideological radicalism, he proposes a basic reform that would not reduce the number of social classes, but add one-with a mission.« less