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If your reaction to the January 6, 2021, insurrection at the Capitol was to think, 'That's not us,' think again: in Illiberal America, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian uncovers a powerful illiberalism as deep seated in the American past as the founding ideals.

In this monumental story of American imperial conquest and capitalist development, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Steven Hahn dismantles the conventional histories of the 19th century and offers a perspective that promises to be as enduring as it is controversial. It begins and ends in Mexico and is throughout internationalist in orientation. It challenges the political narrative of sectionalism, emphasizing the national footing of slavery and the struggle between the Northeast and the Mississippi Valley for continental supremacy.

This is the epic story of how African-Americans, in the six decades following slavery, transformed themselves into a political people - an embryonic black nation. As Steven Hahn demonstrates, rural African-Americans were central political actors in the great events of disunion, emancipation, and nation-building. At the same time, Hahn asks us to think in more expansive ways about the nature and boundaries of politics and political practice.

It’s 1999 during the first dot-com boom. America is awash in new companies powered by young founders riding the Hokusai-rendered wave that was the dawn of the world wide web. Valuations are as fat as the revenues thin. But the Early True Believers believe. This is Silicon Valley. Back east, Sloane Richmond, a corporate lawyer, quits New York for the Valley to follow her old flame Tae Kim, now the visionary founder of a start-up revolutionizing NLP. Driven to see “if the future has a future”, she ascends to become the general counsel of the hottest tech company in America.