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Becoming America: 250 Years of Promise, Power, and Reckoning
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ISBN13: 9798244552492
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jan 19 2026
Pages: 136
Weight: 0.31
Height: 0.29 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jan 19 2026
Pages: 136
Weight: 0.31
Height: 0.29 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
What does it mean for a nation to reach 250 years; and still be unfinished? In Becoming America: 250 Years of Promise, Power, and Reckoning, the United States is examined not as a completed project, but as a republic shaped by ambition, contradiction, and repeated deferral of responsibility. Moving beyond celebratory history, this book traces how ideals proclaimed at the founding collided with power, expansion, inequality, and fear; and how those collisions continue to shape American life. Through a clear-eyed narrative spanning independence, expansion, civil war, reconstruction, global power, and modern crisis, the book explores how the nation has survived moments that should have undone it; and why survival alone has never been enough. Progress, it argues, has not been inevitable. It has arrived only through pressure, conflict, and sustained demands for accountability. Neither polemic nor nostalgia, Becoming America asks difficult questions about legitimacy, responsibility, and the cost of delay. It challenges readers to consider whether American exceptionalism is earned through alignment between ideals and institutions; or assumed through endurance alone. Written for readers seeking depth rather than reassurance, this book offers history as instruction rather than comfort and frames the 250th anniversary not as a conclusion, but as an assessment. The story of America has never been finished. What remains is the work of becoming.
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