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That's the topic of a new book by journalist. America's unresolved history.

That's the topic of a new book by journalist and historian Nick Bryant,

The Forever War America's Unending Conflict with itself.

The book maps a path from the founding of America to the current political state of the country and argues that the political divisiveness we see today is a predictable part of the country's story.

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