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The Free and the Unfree: A New History of the United States
RECONSTRUCTION TO WORLD WAR I, AND FROM THE 1920S TO THE HISTORY-MAKING WATERGATE SCANDAL AND THE ELECTION OF PRESIDENT JIMMY CARTER.
448 pages, Paperback
First published September 29, 1977
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August 14, 2013’flagging the homeland daily’
... this reminding is so familiar, so continual, that it is not consciously registered as reminding. The metonymic image of banal nationalism is not a flag which is being consciously waved with fervent passion; it is a flag hanging unnoticed on the public building.
(Billig, 1995: 8)
... this reminding is so familiar, so continual, that it is not consciously registered as reminding. The metonymic image of banal nationalism is not a flag which is being consciously waved with fervent passion; it is a flag hanging unnoticed on the public building.
(Billig, 1995: 8)
May 10, 2009
A revisionist history of the US from a populist POV. Quite salutary to read about eras with which you are familiar from a different angle.
April 2, 2011
Erudite but overreaching treatise on how the disenfranchised have been mistreated in the US.
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