Richard Kreitner on the secret history of America's imperfect union

Published: Aug. 28, 2020, 1:04 a.m.

b"(8/27/20) The basic premise of journalist and historian Richard Kreitner\\u2019s new book \\u201cBreak It Up: Secession, Division, and the Secret History of America's Imperfect Union\\u201d is simple\\u2014The United States of America has never lived up to its name and never will. This disunionist impulse may have found its greatest expression in the Civil War, but the seduction of secession wasn\\u2019t limited to the South or the 19th century. It was there at our founding and has never gone away. Join us for a revolutionary journey through American history in this installment of Leonard Lopate at Large on WBAI."