Text by Franklin Sirmans, Glenn Ligon, Robert Hobbs, Michele Wallace.

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A stunning novel of hopes and dreams, guilt and love—a book that offers a resonant new definition of what it means to be American and "illuminates the lives b

About national and international power in the "modern" or Post Renaissance period. Explains how the various powers have risen and fallen over the 5 centuries si