history in recent years and should be required reading for all Americans.

It is one of the most important books published on U.S. Unworthy Republic will make you think in new ways about the history of the United States and will help you understand the roots of some of today's inequalities. This harrowing account of theft, dispossession, novel bureaucratic capacities, and unimaginable violence drew me in in ways that few history books do. They encountered resourceful Native Americans who deployed all means at their disposal to retain their land. In his subtle and exceedingly well documented account, Saunt shows how planters eager for land, southern politicians consolidating their power, and New York bankers launched one of the largest mass deportations in U.S. Caitlin Fitz - Atlantic Claudio Saunt has written the definitive history of this widely remembered but seldom understood central episode in American history. Lining up his own calculations alongside recent studies of slavery, Saunt casts indigenous expulsion and the domestic slave trade as twinned trails of tears, economic successes rooted in profound moral failures. offers a damning synthesis of the federal betrayals, mass deportations, and exterminatory violence that defined the 1830s. Nick Romeo - Washington Post Claudio Saunt. manages to do something truly rare: destroy the illusion that history's course is inevitable and recover the reality of the multiple possibilities that confronted contemporaries. Ned Blackhawk (Western Shoshone), professor of history and American studies, Yale University A major achievement. Deportation's legacies in law, culture, and community continue to this day and find powerful exploration in this important addition to the field. history, the discussion of the mass deportation of Native nations during the 1830s remains far too brief. Peter Cozzens - Wall Street Journal There has been insufficient 'reckoning with the conquest of the continent,' Claudio Saunt relays in this excellent new book. Elizabeth Fenn, Distinguished Professor, University of Colorado Boulder, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Encounters at the Heart of the World A much-needed rendering of a disgraceful episode in American history that has been too long misunderstood. A riveting story that invites us all to reflect on how we got where we are today. Chris Hewitt - Star Tribune Unworthy Republic offers a much-needed corrective to the American canon, showing how a heavy-handed president, a deadlocked Congress, and a lust for profit combined to construct a shameful national legacy. Thoroughly researched and quietly outraged.

Unworthy Republic by Claudio Saunt