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This America: The Case for the Nation (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781631496417)
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xAt a time of much despair over the future of liberal democracy, Jill Lepore makes a stirring case for the nation in This America, a follow-up to her much-celebrated history of the United States, These Truths.
With dangerous forms of nationalism on the rise, Lepore, a Harvard historian and New Yorker staff writer, repudiates nationalism here by explaining its long history--and the history of the idea of the nation itself--while calling for a "new Americanism" a generous patriotism that requires an honest reckoning with America's past.
Lepore begins her argument with a primer on the origins of nations, explaining how liberalism, the nation-state, and liberal nationalism, developed together. Illiberal nationalism, however, emerged in the United States after the Civil War--resulting in the failure of Reconstruction, the rise of Jim Crow, and the restriction of immigration. Much of American history, Lepore argues, has been a battle between these two forms of nationalism, liberal and illiberal, all the way down to the nation's latest, bitter struggles over immigration.
Defending liberalism, as This America demonstrates, requires making the case for the nation. But American historians largely abandoned that defense in the 1960s when they stopped writing national history. By the 1980s they'd stopped studying the nation-state altogether and embraced globalism instead. "When serious historians abandon the study of the nation," Lepore tellingly writes, "nationalism doesn't die. Instead, it eats liberalism." But liberalism is still in there, Lepore affirms, and This America is an attempt to pull it out. "In a world made up of nations, there is no more powerful way to fight the forces of prejudice, intolerance, and injustice than by a dedication to equality, citizenship, and equal rights, as guaranteed by a nation of laws."
A manifesto for a better nation, and a call for a "new Americanism," This America reclaims the nation's future by reclaiming its past.
Author: Jill Lepore
ISBN-10: 1631496417
ISBN-13: 9781631496417
Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
Language: English
Published: 05/28/2019
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 7.50h x 4.80w x 0.70d
Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 04/15/2019 pg. 69
Publishers Weekly 04/15/2019
Booklist 05/01/2019 pg. 62
Library Journal 06/01/2019 pg. 132
With dangerous forms of nationalism on the rise, Lepore, a Harvard historian and New Yorker staff writer, repudiates nationalism here by explaining its long history--and the history of the idea of the nation itself--while calling for a "new Americanism" a generous patriotism that requires an honest reckoning with America's past.
Lepore begins her argument with a primer on the origins of nations, explaining how liberalism, the nation-state, and liberal nationalism, developed together. Illiberal nationalism, however, emerged in the United States after the Civil War--resulting in the failure of Reconstruction, the rise of Jim Crow, and the restriction of immigration. Much of American history, Lepore argues, has been a battle between these two forms of nationalism, liberal and illiberal, all the way down to the nation's latest, bitter struggles over immigration.
Defending liberalism, as This America demonstrates, requires making the case for the nation. But American historians largely abandoned that defense in the 1960s when they stopped writing national history. By the 1980s they'd stopped studying the nation-state altogether and embraced globalism instead. "When serious historians abandon the study of the nation," Lepore tellingly writes, "nationalism doesn't die. Instead, it eats liberalism." But liberalism is still in there, Lepore affirms, and This America is an attempt to pull it out. "In a world made up of nations, there is no more powerful way to fight the forces of prejudice, intolerance, and injustice than by a dedication to equality, citizenship, and equal rights, as guaranteed by a nation of laws."
A manifesto for a better nation, and a call for a "new Americanism," This America reclaims the nation's future by reclaiming its past.
Author: Jill Lepore
ISBN-10: 1631496417
ISBN-13: 9781631496417
Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
Language: English
Published: 05/28/2019
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 7.50h x 4.80w x 0.70d
Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 04/15/2019 pg. 69
Publishers Weekly 04/15/2019
Booklist 05/01/2019 pg. 62
Library Journal 06/01/2019 pg. 132
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