history, the discussion of the mass deportation of Native nations during the 1830s remains far too brief. manages to do something truly rare: destroy the illusion that history's course is inevitable and recover the reality of the multiple possibilities that confronted contemporaries.' - Nick Romeo - Washington Post 'There has been insufficient 'reckoning with the conquest of the continent,' Claudio Saunt relays in this excellent new book. Lining up his own calculations alongside recent studies of slavery, Saunt casts indigenous expulsion and the domestic slave trade as twinned trails of tears, economic successes rooted in profound moral failures.' - Caitlin Fitz - Atlantic 'A major achievement. offers a damning synthesis of the federal betrayals, mass deportations, and exterminatory violence that defined the 1830s. history in recent years and should be required reading for all Americans.' - Sven Beckert, Laird Bell Professor of History, Harvard University, author of Empire of Cotton 'Claudio Saunt. It is one of the most important books published on U.S. Unworthy Republic will make you think in new ways about the history of the United States and will help you understand the roots of some of today's inequalities. This harrowing account of theft, dispossession, novel bureaucratic capacities, and unimaginable violence drew me in in ways that few history books do. They encountered resourceful Native Americans who deployed all means at their disposal to retain their land. In his subtle and exceedingly well documented account, Saunt shows how planters eager for land, southern politicians consolidating their power, and New York bankers launched one of the largest mass deportations in U.S. Sweeping and astute.' - Tiya Miles, professor of history, Harvard University, and author of The Dawn of Detroit 'Claudio Saunt has written the definitive history of this widely remembered but seldom understood central episode in American history. Saunt has written an unflinching book that reckons with this history and its legacy.' - Jennifer Szalai - New York Times 'Claudio Saunt sets a bold, new, and urgently needed standard for the way we should understand the history of Indian Removal.

The parallels with the present are eerie.' - David Treuer - Foreign Affairs 'Unworthy Republic is a powerful and lucid account.

Unworthy republic by claudio saunt