What It Means to Be an American

by Michael Walzer

"Condensed to bumper-sticker pith, "What It Means to Be an American" asks everyone to "Honk If You Hate Us-Against-Them Thinking". Offering a fine antidote to exclusionist tripe about 'Americanism, ' Walzer grabs Pat Buchanan by the hyphens and doesn't let go".--"The Philadelphia Inquirer". Lightning Print On Demand Title

136 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1992

About the author

Michael Walzer is a Jewish American political philosopher and public intellectual. A professor emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, he is editor of the political-intellectual quarterly Dissent. He has written books and essays on a wide range of topics, including just and unjust wars, nationalism, ethnicity, economic justice, social criticism, radicalism, tolerance, and political obligation and is a contributing editor to The New Republic. To date, he has written 27 books and published over 300 articles, essays, and book reviews in Dissent, The New Republic, The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, The New York Times, and many scholarly journals