Proclaim Liberty‪!‬

A bus ride fifty miles beyond New York—or a single subway trip—could, Gilbert Seldes argues, expose the dangerous fiction that Pearl Harbor had united America.

Writing in 1942, as the United States fought the Axis, Seldes warns that the danger is not merely defeat: it is the destruction of American liberty and national life. This is no account of weapons or battlefield maneuvers, but a citizen’s urgent argument about the people who must carry the war—and the character that will shape the peace. He challenges Americans to look past comforting slogans, confront what their enemies intend, and find the unity the crisis demands. If freedom depends on understanding what makes America a threat to tyranny, what must Americans recognize in themselves before they can win?

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