In an election year like no other, one question has dominated the discussion: What's happening in America? Underlying that question is another, more profound and more personal one: What does it mean to be an American?
For nearly 35 days, during the thick of the primary season when voters at last had their say, David Maraniss and Robert Samuels crossed the nation in search of answers. They went everywhere the election went - at rallies in airport hangars and high school gymnasiums, with canvassers rounding up votes, at Rotary Club breakfasts and fraternity house debate watch parties and morning coffee klatches and church sermons and sidewalk picket lines and Donald Trump's hotel and John Kasich's bus.
The answers they found were as profound as the questions they asked - individual notions of what it means to be an American and a collective sense of why we've landed at this mysterious moment in the nation's history.
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