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THIS AMERICA - JILL LEPORE KARTONIERT (TB)

'Jill Lepore is that rare combination in modern life of intellect  originality and style'
Amanda Foreman'A thoughtful and passionate defence of her vision of American patriotism' New
York TimesFrom the acclaimed New York Times bestselling historian  Jill Lepore  comes a bold
new history of nationalism  and a plan for hope in the twenty-first century.With dangerous
forms of nationalism on the rise  at a time of much despair over the future of liberal
democracy  Harvard historian and New Yorker writer Jill Lepore makes a stirring case for the
nation - and repudiates nationalism by explaining its long history.In part a primer on the
origins of nations  The Case for the Nation explains how much of American history has been a
battle between nationalism  liberal and illiberal  all the way down to the nation's latest 
bitter struggles over immigration.Defending liberalism  as The Case for the Nation 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  nationalism doesn't die. Instead  it eats liberalism. But liberalism is
still in there  and The Case for the Nation is an attempt to pull it out. A manifesto for a
better world  and a call for a new engagement with national narratives  The Case for the Nation
reclaims the future by acknowledging the past.

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