It is, instead, a human endeavor that is flawed, improvisational and capable of getting back on the right track. Meacham reminds readers that the United States has advanced not by erasing conflict but ...
Out of this moment of fear and uncertainty comes the chance to imagine a democracy that has never fully existed.
Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The preconditions for racial change -- The New Deal and race relations -- The Detroit race riot of 1943 -- Racial militancy and interracial violence in the Second ...