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This America: The Case for the Nation

Hardback | English

By (author): Jill Lepore

At 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. See more
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  • Format: Hardback
  • Weight: 223g
  • Dimensions: 122 x 193mm
  • Publication Date: 21 Jun 2019
  • Publisher: WW Norton & Co
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781631496417

About Jill Lepore

Jill Lepore is the David Woods Kemper ''41 Professor of American History at Harvard University where she teaches classes in evidence historical methods the humanities and American political history. Her one-semester undergraduate course on the history of the United States features weekly debates in which students use primary sources to argue over competing historical interpretations of turning points in American history. She is the author of The Name of War: King Philip''s War and the Origins of American Identity (winner of the Bancroft Prize) New York Burning: Liberty Slavery and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan (a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize) The Secret History of Wonder Woman (winner of the American History Book Prize) and many other titles. She is also a staff writer at The New Yorker host of the podcast The Last Archive and she was named the winner of the Hannah Arendt Prize for Political Thought in 2021.

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