Tony Zore

The American Republic Tony Zore

We are taught in school that we are an ideological nation. Where other nations form around a common bond of race or geography, Americans hold a common ideology. For this reason anyone can come to America and become an American. If this is true it follows that there is a bare minimum of ideology required to be an American. What is that bare minimum? What is that ideology? These questions become increasingly important as Americans become increasingly divided. The answer may be the key to unifying us or the reason why we are forever divided. Like all fans of history, I looked back to try and find the answer to these questions. This book is the product of that search. I don't know whether it will help unify or divide us, but it is the best answer I can give. I tried to throw away all different conclusions people could reach from that bare minimum ideology while maintaining its core. I believe we have gotten away from many of these principles and so I expect any reader to have some disagreement, but I don't believe we can truly unify as Americans unless we can come back to that bare minimum of ideology that created our nation in the first place.