The eight essays make a very good outline of the political, cultural, and religious aspects of life of the United States during several decades.
We have the opportunity to get to know how mistakes or successes of the past influence our lives in present. Owing to what has been happening and is happening we can comprise a picture of our future how it can be.
Since the times the European people came to the America, our life as a multiple nation began. Despite the numerous incentives of those people, they remained in our territories giving the beginning to us as a society.
Nonetheless all the serious religious and political problems that arose with the development of our nation, American people stood through it, being able to enjoy our lives of continuous opportunities, differences and similarities in our desires and aspirations.
The breakthrough of the American nation is definitely unfathomable: No freedom for African Americans, women and even children is now substituted with equal and developing rights for all of them.
Political tensions which shook our world allowed us to find the unity and understanding with each other and also with the nations from abroad.
The movement of Progressives is allegedly continuing even today as it was decades ago, aiming to make our economy flourishing, politics – non-conflictive and effective, people – kinder and more understanding, and our environment – clean and healthy as without it we cannot live as we are the constituent part of the nature.