About the Book: All We Say: A History of the United States in Fifteen Speeches
What does it mean to be American? Who gets to decide?
This sweeping history of the United States through fifteen key speeches relives
the battle for American identity from a New York Times bestselling author and
one of President Obamas former speechwriters.
For 250 years, America has debated what it means to be American. The question
shaped the compromises in their constitution and the arguments theyve had ever
since, spawning abolitionism, secession and civil war, populism, mass migration
and global leadership, movements for reform and the