But today we confront the ugliness of who we are-our darker angels reign.” We have told ourselves a story that secures our virtue and protects us from our vices. “The American idea is indeed in trouble,” he notes. Written before, and published just after, the killing of George Floyd, Begin Again is a book for our times. has issued a piercing call to the American conscience. In Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and its Urgent Lessons for Our Own, Eddie S. Lepore thus puts her finger on the dawn of America’s enduring wound.įour centuries later, America still struggles with the realities of the ever-present past. Less than a month later the first slaves arrived in Jamestown from Africa. The General Assembly, convened in Jamestown on July 30, 1619, constituted the first elected, representative gathering on the North American continent. In her much-lauded These Truths: A History of the United States, Jill Lepore noted the convergence of a pair of history-altering events in the Colony of Virginia.
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