Considering the rhetorical environment of 2019 and 2020—including Wilfred McClay’s own repeatedoverwrought attacks on the New York Times’s “1619 Project,” and his show of support for the Trump administration’s notions about patriotic education—Land of Hope could have been a far more obstreperous contribution to the culture war than it is. Designed to serve as a high school textbook, and now furnished with a full teacher’s guide (co-written with John McBride), Land of Hope has been marketed as a corrective to Howard Zinn’s People’s History of the United States. An advertisement on the publisher’s website promises it contains “The History They Read more