Andrew Fischer’s Reviews > In the Midst of Perpetual Fetes: The Making of American Nationalism, 1776-1820 > Status Update

“The dominant form of American nationalism arose from America’s peculiar conditions and was not imposed upon it; thus it escaped the pathologies of other, bad nationalisms(read fascism and communism) that were based on romantic associations ‘with the past, with reaction, with the military, or with class consciousness’” maybe not in 1997 but that sure as hell sounds like what we just elected so