Summary: Journalist, commentator and long-time Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne Jr. argues that Americans can’t agree on who we are because we can’t agree on who we’ve been, or what it is, philosophically and spiritually, that makes us Americans. In “Our Divided Political Heart: The Battle for the American Idea in an Age of Discontent,” Dionne tours American history, from the Founding Fathers to Clay and Lincoln and on to the Populists, the Progressives and the New Dealera. He provides an analysis of our current politics that shatters conventional wisdom.
