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Illiberal America A History

Steven Hahn

If your reaction to the January 6, 2021, insurrection at the Capitol was to think, 'That’s not us,' think again: in A storm of illiberalism, building in the United States for years, unleashed its destructive force in the Capitol insurrection of January 6, 2021. The attack on American democracy and...

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The Ezra Klein Show

Ezra Klein highlighted it as a sweeping historical study that traces an illiberal political tradition from colonial America to the present, describing it as wideranging and worth reading.

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And then for a third book, this is a little, I'd say like left field of these two books, which are very much about party politics. I read Stephen Hahn, a historian, his new book, Illiberal America, wh...

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Episode: The Real Danger Within the Democratic Party of a F...

Ezra Klein highlighted it as a sweeping historical study that traces an illiberal political tradition from colonial America to the present, describing it as wideranging and worth reading.

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And then for a third book, this is a little, I'd say like left field of these two books, which are very much about party politics. I read Stephen Hahn, a historian, his new book, Illiberal America, which stretches back to America's colonial origins to the present to think through the illiberal political tradition in American life. It's wide ranging and very interesting and worth reading.

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