David Reynolds
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AMERICA
Thomas Jefferson envisioned the United States as a great 'empire of liberty'. David Reynolds, writer and presenter of the major Radio 4 series on America, takes the phrase as a key to the saga of the country, helping to unlock both its grandeur and its paradoxes. He examines how the anti-empire of 1776 became the world's greatest superpower, its prosperity founded on slave labour and dispossession of Native Americans.
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