'When serious historians abandon the study of the nation, ' Lepore tellingly writes, 'nationalism doesn't die. 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.
Bucking this trend, however, Lepore argues forcefully that the nation demands scrutiny. 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. 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.
From the acclaimed New York Times bestselling historian. Summary: "From the best-selling author of These Truths, a work that examines the dilemma of nationalism and the erosion of liberalism in the twenty-first century. This America: The Case for the Nation - inbunden, Engelska, 2019 Frfattare: Jill Lepore Beskrivning.
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