Best Book (that I read) this Year 2018
A well-grounded and researched history of US expansion that provided context to what I thought I knew and filled in a lot of other gaps that were conveniently glossed over by school texts, and Hollywood.
Related Story: In the lead up to last year’s July 4th celebrations we learned that Facebook’s hate speech algorithm deletes portions of the US Declaration of Independence. It seemed to think the part that referred to, “merciless Indian savages” was a racist statement.
