My current bedtime reading material is The Cousins' Wars: Religion, Politics, and the Triumph of Anglo-America by Kevin Phillips.
I'm only about 50 pages in (out of 700), but he seems to posit that the three internecine wars that Anglos have fought (the English Civil War, the American Revolution, and the American Civil War) were all based on core religious principles, and that out of each a deeper respect for the rights of man emerged.
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