A leading historian reframes the American past by uncovering a powerful illiberalism as deep-seated and motivating as the founding ideals.
If the 2017 Charlottesville protests and the January 6 Capitol assault made you think ?That's not us,? think again: in this stunning American history, Steven Hahn shows recurring episodes of racial, religious, and ethnic expulsion, and a localism suspicious of outsiders, including the federal government. Inspiring these events is an illiberalism in which community values override individual rights and hierarchy is superior to democracy.Steven Hahn, a Pulitzer Prize?winning historian of modern political and social movements, is the author of A Nation Under Our Feet and A Nation Without Borders. He teaches at NYU and lives in New York City and Southold, Long Island.