The Whites of Their Eyes - (Public Square) by Jill Lepore (Paperback)

The Whites of Their Eyes is a groundbreaking book that delves into the far right's reactionary history and their embracing of an imagined past.

Jill Lepore, a renowned historian and New Yorker staff writer, provides a meticulous and compassionate examination of the battle over the meaning of America's founding, from the Tea Party to the Texas School Board's adoption of a social-studies curriculum.

This book offers a rare glimpse into the eighteenth-century struggle for independence and the roots of the far right's reactionary history.

Lepore argues that the yearning for an imagined past is not only a fable but also a form of fundamentalism - anti-intellectual, antihistorical, and dangerously antipluralist.

The Whites of Their Eyes is a must-read for anyone seeking to understand the far right's distortion of American history and its implications for our nation's future.