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Has America Been Pushed Beyond Repair?

Photographer Ken Light spent ten years crisscrossing America for his latest book, Course of the Empire. He came of age in the 1960s and believed in America. But after a decade photographing the country, the state of the United States and the stories of those he met make him wonder if it is an empire in decline.

Rodeo, county fair, Illinois © Ken Light/ Course of the Empire/Steidl

In an essay from Course of the Empire titled This is Not the America I Grew Up In, Ken Light writes, “I came of age in the late 1960s, and remember President John F. Kennedy’s ...

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