Summer means time to read more widely! Top of my pile, Jill Lepore's political history of the US. Nobody's dared to write a large scale history like this in decades, but now seems the time, since different Americans 
seem to inhabit such different understandings of the nation and its past. (I haven't done American history since high school!) To study the past, she promises, is to unlock the prison of the present (xvi).
seem to inhabit such different understandings of the nation and its past. (I haven't done American history since high school!) To study the past, she promises, is to unlock the prison of the present (xvi).