Bestselling author Davis reprises the "hidden" concept that enlivened his America's Hidden History by pulling stories out from the crucial first fifty years of the nineteenth century and probing their complexities. Hidden, indeed, were aspects of these episodes: Burr's 1807 trial with its political intrigue; the "Bible Riots" in Philadelphia reflecting the anti-immigrant sentiments of the times; a mutiny aboard a slave ship that exemplifies the destructive grip of racism on personal and national life. Davis raises the issues of ambition, power, intolerance, civil rights, freedom of the press, and more that frustrated our beginnings and shape our present still.
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