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Through wonderful and touching stories, this book shows the history of the evolution of social consciousness and law related to racial issues in the United States. It introduces issues such as the popular basis for legislation in a contract society, the thinking of law on human nature, and the relationship between changes in law and social theory. Through the author's narration, readers can see how in a country governed by law, people, especially disadvantaged groups, use the law to obtain their own rights and interests through long-term struggles, thereby promoting the deepening of social understanding and enabling the entire country to make steady progress in the historical process of eliminating injustice.

The book is divided into five parts: the first part is the historical story of the United States; the second part is about the legislative rules of a country governed by the rule of law; the third part is about some specific cases that tell stories about the judicial process; the fourth part mainly tells the evil consequences of "intolerance" through the stories of monks, monasteries and the Auschwitz concentration camp; the fifth part is the author's random thoughts about reading and seeing.

The United States is a country with a short history and few towering monuments from the East and Europe. However, after wandering a lot along the way, I feel that it also has its own special charm. Among its pioneers were a group of thinkers from Europe. The ideas they inherited from Europe arrived in the wilderness of North America and lost their exquisite decoration, but they had a real spirit. Following the footprints they left, while walking on the simple land, I read the yellowed handwriting on the pages they left behind, and at the same time, I try to share some of my experiences with you.

This book is mainly based on dozens of surviving paintings of children who were murdered in the Jewish concentration camps during World War II. It focuses on the core content of adhering to human dignity in suffering, insisting on the creation of beauty and intelligent thinking. It tells the relevant background and recorded characters and stories. It covers the experiences of ordinary Jewish families, Jewish children, Jewish artists and other large numbers of Holocaust victims and their unremitting spiritual pursuits.

The author continues to use the form of letters, starting from the question "What is the president?", And uses a series of stories to lay out the basic principles and operational details of the American political and legal system layer by layer, giving readers a deeper understanding of how the United States implements supervision and restrictions on rights through "balance and restrictions" in its own institutional system.

"History Beside You and Me" belongs to the same category as "Sweeping Fallen Leaves to Spend the Winter" and "Reading Along the Road". It is a collection of Linda's articles in recent years. The difference is that the content of the first two books basically focuses on the United States, while this book contains many stories from China and other parts of the world, which shows the author's broad vision and diverse thinking. As for the narrative and text style, it still retains the precision, smoothness and affinity of the past.

The United States is not a country that is good at hiding its shame. When it casts a ray of sunshine, it casts a shadow. All its shadows are exposed to all, even a stranger. Therefore, even ordinary outsiders like us will see a lot of problems at a glance. But we immediately knew that we had to wake up from our complacency, because we soon discovered that this did not necessarily mean that we were smarter and more discerning than Americans. They seem to be very aware that there is such a shadow. They are just forced to admit a simple truth. If you pursue the sunshine, you cannot avoid the shadow behind you. We began to wonder, when Americans tolerate this shadow (this tolerance often makes them miserable), what is the unquenchable light in their hearts? What are they looking for, so much so that they pay a heavy price? For us, this is a real problem. In the process of learning about it, we have become increasingly interested in this strange country with a short history. Based on our own experience as a civilian, we found that the first step to understanding is simple communication. No matter how hard the shell seems to be, its people are all ordinary, and no matter how big it is, they are just these ordinary people.

Faced with Spain's exotic and colorful history, art, characters, palaces, churches, castles and other cultural essences, the author not only describes its unparalleled humanistic and artistic value, but also blends the stories that have happened on this land for thousands of years into the wandering world. The itinerary includes emperors, generals, wars, flames of war, mountains and rivers, especially its process of becoming a modern country, throughout the book. It not only allows readers to appreciate the charming scenery of Spain, but also to delve into the deep history of Spain and gain insight into its profound and enlightening social evolution process.

Linda from "Bring a Book to Paris" embarks on another trip to the romantic flower city. However, the burden of history is always heavy: "One hundred years can accumulate, struggle, and reflect to produce Hugo. One hundred years is enough to bring out the old and bring out the new, bury a period of history, and completely forget that the entire nation has not improved because of what it has experienced. Paris is a city and a microcosm of history... You will feel some of their historical views."

Through a series of stories before and after the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787, this article sorts out the basic process of the development of the American constitutional democratic system from its source to its relative maturity, as well as its implementation. Following the process of the Constitutional Convention, the author narrates step by step and introduces his thoughts on the ideological soil, historical opportunities, and basic concepts of the system design in the U. S. Constitution. He describes the political wisdom that early American thinkers and politicians showed in confrontation and compromise by following the rules of the game when facing various ideological viewpoints. He also analyzes the worrying issues and historical limitations of the U. S. Constitutional system. Secondly, during the anti-Vietnam War movement in the United States in the 1960s, the New York Times, the Washington Post and other media outlets relied on their constitutional power to compete with the then-U. S. Government administration in the disclosure of the so-called "Secret Pentagon Documents." This highlighted the operating mechanism of American democracy and also touched upon the plight of the system in new crises.