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This America The Case for the Nation

Jill Lepore

A At a time of much despair over the future of liberal democracy, Jill Lepore makes a stirring case for the nation in

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It was described as a standalone book that summarizes arguments from 'These Truths' and discussed as exploring the importance of liberal nationalism.

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And then you wrote a shorter book called This America, the case for the nation.

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It was described as a standalone book that summarizes arguments from 'These Truths' and discussed as exploring the importance of liberal nationalism.

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And then you wrote a shorter book called This America, the case for the nation.

We think of that as these little truths around my house. Yeah. Yeah, one could be... is one a sequel of the other? This America is in some ways a digest of an argument that's implied and These Truths, it's not an excerpt of it, it's a standalone. It was not your way of getting around the 1,000 page limit.

In this little book, This America, I talk about the long history of liberal nationalism and the tendency of nationalism always to become illiberal.

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