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From These Truths: A History of the United States, by Jill Lepore

SOUNDS FAMILIAR

"Harding's administration labeled its economic program a 'return to normalcy.' It's political program was a campaign against immigration, it's cultural program an aesthetic movement known as the Colonial Revival. Both looked inward, and backward, inventing and celebrating an American heritage, a fantasy of a past that never happened."

From Chapter Ten, Efficiency and the Masses