Or else Nick Bryant would've already been sued by Joe Haldeman and Dexter Filkins when he published his latest book "The Forever War", which tells the story of how America’s political polarisation is 250 years in the making, and argues that the roots of its modern-day malaise are to be found in its troubled past.
It's on my list of books to read as soon as I've finished with Nick Bryant's equally spellbinding book "The Rise and Fall of Australia - How a great nation lost its way"; after all, all reading should begin about home.