Dansite Reading Journal

Cover of "This America: The Case for the Nation" by Jill Lepore features a stylized, quilt-like American flag with earthy tones on a beige background.
This America
A Case For the Nation
Read August 10, 2019

Publication Details

Type: Book
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2019

Reading Details

Pages: 160
Location: Kansas City, Missouri (US)

Highlights

First Paragraph:

Nations are made up of people but held together by history, like wattle and daub or lath and plaster or bricks and mortar. For a generation, American history has been coming undone and the nation has been coming apart, the daub cracking, the plaster buckling, the mortar crumbling. This tragedy was foreseen.