Changing History Textbooks - New Passage
History
"Ideologically speaking, the histories of the fifties were implacable, seamless. Inside their covers, America was perfect: the greatest nation in the world, and the embodiment of democracy, freedom, and technological progress. For them, the country never changed
in any important way: its values and its political institutions remained constant from the time of the American Revolution. To my generation, the children of the fifties, these texts appeared permanent just because they were so self-contained."
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