Examining race, law and religion in today's America, this book highlights the power of these principles to both divide and unite, and promotes and new form of liberalism which incorporates the spiritual values neglected by earlier liberals. Cook looks at progressive liberals such as John Dewy, Martin Luther King Jr., and Walther Rauschenbusch, and traces the development of the progressive movement in law and politics from the post-World War II era to the present.

Prince Albert Victor, King Edward Vll's (r. 190110) first son and heir to the throne, popularly known as Eddy, has virtually been airbrushed out of history. Eddy was as popular and charismatic a figure in his own time as Princess Diana a century later. As in her case, his sudden death in 1892 resulted in public demonstrations of grief on a scale rarely seen at the time, and it was even rumored (as in the case of Diana) that he was murdered to save him besmirching the monarchy. Had he lived, he would have been crowned king in 1911, ushering in a profoundly different style of monarchy from that...