Dr. Bill Roy: "A miraculous symmetry - Lincoln and Obama in '08?"

An African - American as president? Dr. Roy begins: [Excerpt] "... I wanted it for Christmas. And, sure enough, good friends gave me the book entitled “The American Idea” that contains 78 essays written over the 150-year history of The Atlantic Monthly--an eternity for a serious magazine and a span covering nearly two-thirds of our nation’s history. ..." Read more.