ABOUT AMERICAN RULE: How a Nation Conquered the World but Failed Its People (Jared Yates Sexton)
From writer and political analyst Jared Yates Sexton comes a journey through the history of the United States, from the nation’s founding to the twenty-first century, which examines and debunks the American myths we’ve always told ourselves.
In recent years, Americans have faced a deluge of horrifying developments in politics and culture: stolen elections, fascist rallies, families torn apart and locked away. A common refrain erupts at each new atrocity: This isn’t who we are.
In American Rule, Jared Yates Sexton upends those convenient fictions by laying bare the foundational myths at the heart of our collective American imagination. From the very origins of this nation, Americans in power have abused and subjugated others; enabling that corruption are the many myths of American exceptionalism and steadfast values, which are fed to the public and repeated across generations. Working through each era of American growth and change, Sexton weaves together the origins and perpetuation of these narratives still in the public memory, and the acts we have chosen to forget.
Stirring, deeply researched, and disturbingly familiar, American Rule is a call to examine our own misconceptions of what it means, and has always meant, to be an American.
Game Changer: Timeline Presenter for Trial Attorneys w/ Stephen Haber
The Insurrection: One Year Later w/ Brandi Buchman
False Confessions and Faulty Witness Identification w/ Preeminent Civil Rights Litigator Ilann Maazel
Backlash against Democracy w/ Teri Kanefield
Policing the Second Amendment: Guns, Law Enforcement, and the Politics of Race
Find The Helpers w/ Fred Guttenberg
Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College?
"The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump" w/ Bandy X. Lee, M.D., Yale Forensic Psychiatrist
Corruption and Complicity: Democracy on the Brink (with Robert Maguire of CREW)
Unconscionable: Trump's Lame Duck Rush To Execute Inmates w/Liliana Segura of The Intercept
Epic Fail: The Trump Legal Team’s Courtroom Debacles (with Zoe Tillman from BuzzFeed)
A Nation in Crisis: How We Got Here
Americans worry about 2020 being another 2000, but the real worry is another 1876
On Fascism: 12 Lessons From American History (with Matthew C. MacWilliams)
The DREAM Act and DACA (with Professor Michael A. Olivas)
Human Lie Detection
Uncounted: The Crisis of Voter Suppression in America w/ Gilda R. Daniels
Why Convicted Felons should have the Right to Serve Jury Duty & Vote
Wrongfully Convicted (Part Two)
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