CONTENTS

    Preface
1.  America’s Moral-Spiritual Inheritance
2.  Getting Started in America
3.  Independence – And the New Republic
4.  The American Republic Gets Up and Running
5.  Civil War (1861-1865) and Recovery
6.  America Comes of Age
7.  America Enters the World Stage
8.  World War Two and the Start of the Cold War
9.  Middle-Class America Triumphant
10. America Shifts to the Humanist Left
11. The 1970s:  America Divided
12. The World’s Sole Superpower
13. America Stumbles
14. Obama Strives to “Change” America
15. Into the Age of Trump
16. Biden Takes Command
17. The Lessons of History