''Toward the beginning of “This America: The Case for the Nation,”
Jill Lepore,
a professor of history at Harvard and a staff writer for The New
Yorker, says: “When serious historians abandon the study of the nation,
when scholars stop trying to write a common history for a people,
nationalism doesn’t die. Instead, it eats liberalism.” Purging American
identity of nationalism and refounding it on a purified liberalism is
her purpose in this brief but ambitious book, based on essays in Foreign
Affairs and The New Yorker..''.
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