A Tale of Two Americas

Echoes of 1776: America on the Crossroads Again?

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens has perhaps one of the greatest opening lines ever written:

I. The Year 1775

“It was the best of times; it was the worst of times. It was the age of wisdom; it was the age of foolishness. It was the spring of great hope; it was the winter of no hope at all. We had everything; we had nothing. We were all going straig…