#american-exceptionalism

#american-exceptionalism

In her immersive work of nonfiction, A Flower Traveled in My Blood, Haley Cohen Gilliland documents the decades-long struggle to recover children who, during Argentina's Dirty War, were snatched away from detained dissidents.

If "Civil War" was a mealymouthed broadside against the idea that "it can't happen here," "Warfare" serves as a viscerally hyper-specific reminder of the human cost required to ensure that "it" keeps happening everywhere else instead.

I'm honored beyond words by this recognition by the Bradley Foundation, which has done so much to advance constitutional liberty and civic education in the roots of American exceptionalism.