Shattered Dreams, Infinite Hope: A Tragic Vision of the Civil Rights Movement Barrett Swanson embarks on a

Barrett Swanson embarks on a personal quest across the United States to uncover what it means to be an American amid the swirl of our post-truth climate in this collection of critically acclaimed essays and reportage

creating an indelible tale of a family who must go to remarkable lengths to truly understand one another

and their new garbage crew friends will show them how it's done--on the grandest

For readers of Trick Mirror and How to Do Nothing

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Shattered Dreams, Infinite Hope: A Tragic Vision of the Civil Rights Movement Barrett Swanson embarks on aA New York Times Notable Book A landmark reinterpretation of the civil rights movement that challenges reductive heroic narratives of the 1950s and 1960s and invigorates new debates and possibilities for the future of the struggle for liberation. We are all familiar with the romantic vision of the civil rights movement: a moment when heroic African Americans and their allies triumphed over racial oppression through courageous protest, forging a new