The Shortest History of the United States of America by Don Watson morality Award-winning author Alice Pung has

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While the xenophobic right hovers in the wings

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Bronwyn tells her story and those of many others – what they saw

The Shortest History of the United States of America by Don Watson morality Award-winning author Alice Pung hasThe extraordinary story of the United States, a nation that contains multitudes When Britain's thirteen American colonies declared their independence on 4 July 1776, the United States of America was born. But it was hardly united. In this superbly written book, Don Watson traces how the central conflicts of the United States those over freedom, race, frontiers, enterprise, religion and violence play out through its history: a country at war with