Jon Boorstin’s father, Librar­i­an of Con­gress and Pulitzer Prize win­ner Daniel J. Boorstin, was one of the very first Jews to become an Amer­i­can His­to­ri­an. Boorstin describes how his opti­mistic view of Amer­i­ca was shaped by his father, and his grand­fa­ther Sam Boorstin, who lived through the col­li­sion of racism and anti­semitism in the tri­al and lynch­ing of good friend Leo Frank six years lat­er, nav­i­gat­ed through the Tul­sa Mas­sacre of 1921, and still found cause for hope. From Steven J. Ross, author of Hitler in Los Ange­les , ​“This is a hope­ful book for the post- Trump era, a reminder of how we once believed, and can still believe, that what binds us togeth­er is greater than what divides us.