NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From an award-winning journalist at The Atlantic, these searing essays make a powerful case that "real hope lies not in a sunny nostalgia for American greatness but in seeing this history plain--in all of its brutality, unadorned by euphemism" (The New York Times).
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR - "No writer better demonstrates how American dreams are so often sabotaged...