Jay was at least a decade ahead of Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Walter McDougall, who contends in his 2004 book Freedom Just Around the Corner that hustling is the central motif of American history, the dominant measure of the American character. But he has offered a theory of history, explored in the magnificent obsession of his art and career: hustling. Neither has he unveiled a shiny new understanding of the Civil War. He hasn’t floated a new interpretation about the American Revolution.
He hasn’t presented, like Voltaire, a philosophie de l’histoire.
No, he hasn’t shaped our conception of the New World through prodigious research. Let’s begin with what even his greatest admirers may miss: JAY-Z is a prescient theorist of American history.
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