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020			_a9781631496417
050	0	0	_aE183 _b.L46 2019
082	1		_a320.973 LEP _2
100	1		_aLepore, Jill
245	1	0	_aThis America : _bThe Case for the Nation _c/ Jill Lepore
250			_aFirst edition.
260			_aNew York _b: Liveright Publishing Corp. _c, 2019
300			_a150 p. _c; 20 cm
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_aA work that examines the dilemma of nationalism and the erosion of liberalism in the twenty-first century. At a time of much despair over the future of liberal democracy, Harvard historian Jill Lepore makes a stirring case for the nation in This America. Since the end of the Cold War, Lepore writes, American historians have largely retreated from the idea of 'the nation,' in part because postmodernism has corroded faith in grand narratives, and in part because the rise of political nationalism has rendered it suspect and unpalatable. Bucking this trend, however, Lepore argues forcefully that the nation demands scrutiny. Without an honest reckoning with America's collective past, we will be at the mercy of unscrupulous demagogues who spin their own version of the national story for their own purposes. 'When serious historians abandon the study of the nation,' Lepore tellingly writes, 'nationalism doesn't die. Instead, it eats liberalism.' A trenchant work of political philosophy as well as a reclamation of America's national history, This America asks us to look our nation's sovereign past square in the eye to reveal not only a history of contradictions, but a path of promise for the future.
546			_aEnglish
650		4	_aNationalism _z-United States _x-History
650		4	_aLiberalism _z-United States
650		4	_aNation-state _x-History
651		4	_aUnited States _x-Politics and government _x-Philosophy
651		4	_aUnited States _x-Historiography
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