<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> America acted deeply on the Elizabethan English imagination, working its magic in the minds of poets and men of science</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> The storm that wrecked the Virginia-bound ship Sea Venture in 1609 inspired a play by Shakespeare— and the survivors’ tribulations may well have sown the first seeds of democracy in the New World</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> The author of ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’ never set foot on our shores, but he had a clear and highly personal vision of what we were and what we had been</span> </span></p>
