This America: The Case for the Nation Hardcover – May 28, 2019

Both a supplement to, and exploration of themes developed in her 2018 U.S. history, “These Truths,” “This America” looks Trumpian nationalism square in the eye. Without knowing what was coming, LePore foresees the spasm of January 6, 2021, which, at its core, represented the nadir of illiberal American nationalism. She ends her extended essay on a positive note, but the struggle, as ever in America, is to find a the answer to the question, “whose America is it anyway?”

Ms. Lepore's Plain Truths is a wonderful chronological review of American history. I think she could have spent more time on This America - The Case For The Nation. Maybe it need more detailed organization. I am going to have to read it again, and again especially as the USA faces the greatest challenges to its Republic. Universities need to hand this book out to every Freshman to read.

LePore is the maestro of converting Society’s pseudo-intellectual fog to rendered digestible cuisine. I see the light and it WAS a train. For those of us who possess various degrees of the jumble of data, desperately need a conductor to orchestrate it into coherency. Thank you, Jill.

Jill Lepore is one of our most gifted and essential citizens. Her work helps clear away cancerous denials and common delusions - providing essential historical fact to inform and inspire us going forward.With this book she has established the essential framework for the work to be done.

The author seems to have caught that most-Harvard of literary diseases—use or make up an obscure vocabulary that will impress other faculty for its erudition (referencing as many “-isms” as possible and write complex sentences, with as many commas as possible) rather than communicating effectively. She should have thought of her New Yorker readers.

Jill Lepore makes a case for the American nation that relies on ensuring that the words of our founding documents apply to all. It is an eloquent rebuttal of Trumpism.

An excellent essay that is a very important read during these days of rampant nationalism. She is an important historian. I recommend both her books, and her articles in The New Yorker.

It is short, fortunately. It’s a little hard to digest for the average person. She uses a lot of similar terms and I had to try to remember the definitions. I’m not sure any of it stuck (read three months ago).

This essay/ book clearly show that the answer can t be yes or no. It shows how the US struggle with its past, present and future. It also shows that the words nation, state, patriosm and nationalist have different meaning. Finally how it is important to keep studying history