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Livre 2 sur 2: The Civic Formation Trilogy

Oliver, J. D.

 
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Synopsis

Most people study American history by examining events. Wars. Elections. Laws. Revolutions. Court rulings. Those things matter. But they are the visible branches of something far less examined: the formation of the people themselves.

Roots Before Branches traces fourteen historical eras of American history — from colonial salutary neglect through the digital age — through a single consistent lens: what kind of citizens was each era producing? Not what happened, but what the conditions were doing to human beings living inside them.

The thesis is direct: the ceiling of government competence is set by the floor of citizen capacity. Every downstream problem in the republic reflects whatever citizens are formed to be. The founding generation was formed for the form of government they were given. That formation has drifted across 250 years. That drift is the crisis.

This is not a political book. Trained in Deming Total Quality Management, the author applies systems thinking and measurement discipline to a question historians have described but rarely measured: what kind of citizens has each era of American history actually produced?

Roots Before Branches is Book II of the Civic Formation Trilogy. It follows Awakening a Forgotten Republic and sets the stage for Book III's diagnostic instrument. It ends with urgent questions and no tidy answers — because the answers are the reader's assignment.

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