During the Fourth of July, an assessment of America's democracy occurs amid Donald Trump's second term. The discussion reflects on Jill Lepore's 2005 essay regarding the perplexing nature of democracy's establishment. It also references a historically significant book from 1938, 'The Rise of American Democracy,' which aimed to clarify the American experience and encourage learning from the past. This includes insights from its authors who emphasized the importance of recognizing historical mistakes while upholding noble ideals.
In 1938, if you had a dollar and seventy-two cents, you could buy a copy of 'The Rise of American Democracy,' a seven-hundred-page hardcover about the size of a biggish Bible or a Boy Scout handbook.
The book's authors, Mabel B. Casner, a Connecticut schoolteacher, and Ralph Henry Gabriel, a Yale professor, set out to make history matter. In a foreword written in the dark days of 1937, when Fascism, not democracy, was on the rise, they offered a sober historian's creed.
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