This book stands with the forgotten. It stands with those who stood by them. And now it asks something of us: Will we remember? Will we face what was done? Will we stand next? United States of Amnesia does not ask America to hate itself. It asks America to remember itself - not the flag-waving fantasy, but the real country: the one that limps, the one that struggles, the one that still has the capacity to become what it has always promised to be. This book is for the 250th anniversary not because the work is finished, but because it is not.