From your best-selling writer of These Truths, a function that examines the dilemma of nationalism as well as the erosion of liberalism in the twenty-first century.

At the same time of much despair over the continuing future of liberal democracy, Harvard historian Jill Lepore makes a stirring case for the country in This America. Since the end from the Cold War, Lepore writes, American historians have generally retreated from the idea of ‘the nation,’ in part because postmodernism offers corroded faith in grand narratives, and in concerning this America: THE SITUATION for the Nation part as the rise of politics nationalism provides rendered it suspect and unpalatable. Bucking this tendency, nevertheless, Lepore argues forcefully that the nation demands scrutiny. Without an honest reckoning with America’s collective former, we will be at the mercy of unethical demagogues who spin their personal version from the national story for his or her own purposes. ‘When severe historians abandon the study of the country,’ Lepore tellingly writes, ‘nationalism doesn’t die. Rather, it eats liberalism.’ A trenchant function of political philosophy as well as a reclamation of America’s nationwide background, This America asks us to look our nation’s sovereign history square in the attention to reveal not just a background of contradictions, but a path of promise for the future.

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