A national project to debrief the America experiment at 250 years. In Pursuit is a non-partisan, not-for-profit initiative of More Perfect.
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Debriefing the first 250 years of the American experiment to uncover the insight and courage needed for our future.
Executive Director of the George Washington Presidential Library. Creator of Imperfect Union newsletter. Author of award-winning books *Making the Presidency* and *The Cabinet*
#1 New York Times bestselling author of The Small and the Mighty and founder of The Preamble, a weekly magazine about politics and history — for people who want to understand what’s happening without losing heart.
Former Member of Congress. Writer. Owner of Theodore’s Books, Oyster Bay, NY
The founder of The Renovator, Danielle Allen, is a Harvard prof and democracy advocate working on democracy renovation 24-7.
CEO of In Pursuit, 11th Archivist of the United States, political scientist, American history buff, and dog lover
Historian of the American Revolution, Scotland, and the British Atlantic world. Director of Digital History @inpursuit. Narrator of Worlds Turned Upside Down, a podcast about the history of the American Revolution.
Historian at American University. Director of Correspondence of Zachary Taylor and Millard Fillmore. Author/editor of Correspondence of James K. Polk, James K. Polk and His Time, Reconstructing the Campus: Higher Education and the American Civil War.
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