Will I love The Forever War?

It provided me with a a comprehensive understanding of the psyche of American culture and political life.

The roots of our national divisions run through our 250-year history and Nick Bryant, a talented British journalist and Ph.D.  historian in American history has brought together the strands of that story in a readable narrative: demagoguery, the “constant curse” of slavery and its aftermath, the embrace of violence and a gun culture unmatched among democracies, the divisive nature of religion, cultural conflicts over change attitudes toward sexuality, the ongoing tension over immigration and America’s sense of “exceptionalism”...It is a painful story and not a book for  Americans likely to resent an “outsider’s” critical view of America.

Bryant, who spent… show more.