"It ain't so much the things we don't know that get us into trouble,nineteenth-century humorist Josh Billings remarked. "It's the things we know that just ain't so." In this bold and brilliantly argued book, acclaimed a...

LUCKY... OR BLESSED?The history of the United States displays an uncanny pattern: At moments of crisis, when the odds against success seem overwhelming and disaster looks imminent, fate intervenes to provide deliverance and progress. ...