The Dying Citizen
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- $22.99
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- $22.99
Publisher Description
The New York Times bestselling author of The Case for Trump explains the decline and fall of the once cherished idea of American citizenship.
Human history is full of the stories of peasants, subjects, and tribes. Yet the concept of the “citizen” is historically rare—and was among America’s most valued ideals for over two centuries. But without shock treatment, warns historian Victor Davis Hanson, American citizenship as we have known it may soon vanish.
In The Dying Citizen, Hanson outlines the historical forces that led to this crisis. The evisceration of the middle class over the last fifty years has made many Americans dependent on the federal government. Open borders have undermined the idea of allegiance to a particular place. Identity politics have eradicated our collective civic sense of self. And a top-heavy administrative state has endangered personal liberty, along with formal efforts to weaken the Constitution.
As in the revolutionary years of 1848, 1917, and 1968, 2020 ripped away our complacency about the future. But in the aftermath, we as Americans can rebuild and recover what we have lost. The choice is ours.
Customer Reviews
Required Reading
This is one of the best books I have read. A real history lesson and one that should be required reading for every high school student.
One of the best!!!
I loved the book. He and Thomas Sowell are my favorite authors right now.
A “Must Read” If There Ever Was One
This book is one that I think of as so important for people to read that it belongs among the classics. I would like to see it become reading in our schools.