Let every faction bloom
John Patrick Diggins, 6 March 1997
For Love of Country: Debating the Limits of Patriotism
edited by Joshua Cohen.
Beacon, 154 pp., $15, August 1996,0 8070 4313 3 Show More
edited by Joshua Cohen.
Beacon, 154 pp., $15, August 1996,
For Love of Country: An Essay on Patriotism and Nationalism
by Maurizio Viroli.
Oxford, 214 pp., £22.50, September 1995,0 19 827952 3 Show More
by Maurizio Viroli.
Oxford, 214 pp., £22.50, September 1995,
Bonds of Affection: Americans Define Their Patriotism
edited by John Bodnar.
Princeton, 352 pp., £45, September 1996,0 691 04397 3 Show More
edited by John Bodnar.
Princeton, 352 pp., £45, September 1996,
Buring the Flag: The Great 1989-90 American Flag Desecration Controversy
by Robert Justin Goldstein.
Kent State, 453 pp., $39, July 1996,0 87338 526 8 Show More
by Robert Justin Goldstein.
Kent State, 453 pp., $39, July 1996,
“... Before the First World War, the Greenwich Village rebels Randolph Bourne, Max Eastman and John Reed regarded themselves as nationalistic liberators willing to draw on the country’s intellectual traditions. Eastman defined himself as an ‘American lyrical socialist – a child of Walt Whitman reared by Karl Marx’. But with America’s entry into ... ”