February 2016
Intermediate to advanced
240 pages
4h 40m
English

There is an establishment folk wisdom about American history. It is, somehow, never written down in compressed form. So let us try to spell it out:
America is and has always been Jeffersonian. It is and has been a small-government laissez-faire country, exalting its pioneers, its entrepreneurs, and its small businesses, and deeply distrustful of any sort of “interference” by the government in the economy. In its DNA, America is a country for the self-sufficient and self-reliant, running or at least aspiring to run their own small businesses. Especially suspicious of big government, it greatly prefers a hamstrung ...