I recently heard myself saying I have not been this afraid of the future since 1968, when I was 12 years old and thought the world as I knew it was coming to an end. That made me think of the Billy Joel song “We Didn’t Start the Fire.” A few days later a friend recommended a book to read, The Soul of America by John Meacham.
The Soul of America has been reminding me that, as my father has often said, our country has always been in political turmoil.
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