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,
“... outermost periphery, but at the ‘centre’. In a book with the same title, For Love of Country, Maurizio Viroli offers further, more sustained reflections on the subject. Years ago John Schaar, noting how patriotism had become an object of abuse because of the Vietnam War, went on to distinguish it from nationalism, ‘its bloody brother’. To be a ... ”
