If it’s true that journalism is the first draft of history, then Evan Osnos’s Wildland is as good a history of the early 21st-century US as we are likely to get for some time.
It powerfully captures the country’s sheer level of rancour, division, and dysfunction. And it richly depicts the lives of individuals caught up in this maelstrom.
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