Great american historian wilford mcclay. Its a book that comes at a time when questions of who we are as a people, of whether we can have a unifying rather than a divisive story and of how to tell the story of our country in a way that neither sells short our National Greatness nor whitewashes our National Sins are really live questions in our politics, and what may be in what may be an unusual way. This book is clearly intended to speak to that moment. The couldnt be a better time to hear from bill about his sense of how to approach these questions. Mcclay is a national treasure. Hes first and foremost a teacher, holds the blankenship chair at the university of oklahoma. Hes admired and beloved by students past and present. Hes also one of the great writers of American History. His book the masterless self and society in modern america was judged the best book in American Intellectual history the year it was published by the organization of american historians among his other wonderfu
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