02192cam a2200301 4500 2826301323 TxAuBib 20260729120000.0 260210s2026||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781668062609 hardcover 1668062607 hardcover (OCoLC)1572398996 TxAuBib Jackson, Greg, author. Been there, done that : how our history shows what we can overcome / Greg Jackson. How our history shows what we can overcome. First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2026. xviii, 414 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (pages 379-402) and index. Our nation's past is full of massive upheaval, disagreement, and departures from the moral high ground. The political gentlemanly conduct of yesteryear is no more than a myth. But that reality never allowed our worst historical selves to defeat our better angels. In Been There, Done That, Greg looks back in time to eight examples from our nation's history and shows that some of the hottest issues of our day are, in fact, American traditions that stand firmly beside another deeply American trait: the will to push back on these demons, prevail, and overcome. It may be 250 years since this country's founding, but the playbook has remained mostly the same. From the Founding Father's hyperpartisan print war of the 1790s, to the caning of Senator Charles Sumner in 1856, to the thoroughly corrupt presidential election of 1876, and all the way through the yellow journalism and print war of Joseph Pulitzer and William Randoph Hearst, you will recognize how familiar these stories are to our own supposedly unprecedented times. 20260729. Political corruption United States History. Political culture United States History. Partisanship History. United States Politics and government. United States History.