Leonard Pitts Jr.: Happy endings in US history are not guaranteed
by Leonard Pitts Jr., Tribune Content Agency
Nov 01, 2020
2 minutes
America is not guaranteed.
There is, in other words, nothing foreordained about this country someday returning to anything approximating normal. That’s important to keep in mind as we await results of the most critical U.S. election since 1860, when Abraham Lincoln came to power in an America pulling apart. Not unlike the America we live in now.
When you read history in books, events can seem
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