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Historian Sean Wilentz presents two key insights that mutually uncover a clearer, much-needed perspective of American political history. First, partisanship has almost always been an attribute of American history and in fact has made possible the nation's biggest social reforms. There is little to be gained from a "postpartisan" political world. Second, the recent focus on financial inequality has a long history. From founders' generation for this, America's egalitarian traditions has appeared and reappeared like an underground river. This egalitarian traditions has triumphed - in the Civil Conflict and Progressive eras, the New Deal, the fantastic Population - not through some sort of bipartisan collaboration nor through outsiders' vital protests but through contentious yet effective party politics. As he have in The Rise of North american Democracy, Wilentz masterfully ties mutually the key statistics and occasions of American history to completely recharge our considering this nation's political and moral identity.
