(8/27/20) The basic premise of journalist and historian Richard Kreitner’s new book “Break It Up: Secession, Division, and the Secret History of America's Imperfect Union” is simple—The United States of America has never lived up to its name and never will. This disunionist impulse may have found its greatest expression in the Civil War, but the seduction of secession wasn’t limited to the South or the 19th century. It was there at our founding and has never gone away. Join us for a revolutionary journey through American history in this installment of Leonard Lopate at Large on WBAI.