The Dying Citizen by Victor Davis Hanson
Basic Books, October 2021
Victor Davis Hanson, the classics scholar and military historian, has written or co-authored two dozen books and many hundreds of articles. His latest book, The Dying Citizen, is a powerful and carefully developed argument for preserving American citizenship, a unique patrimony now under attack in many ways from many sources, and from all appearances, a losing battle.
Hanson
provides a history of the concept of citizenship dating back to the
Greeks and Romans and makes clear how rare the American experience has
been in creating a modern citizenry with both rights and
responsibilities. Hanson's book was mostly written from 2018 through
early 2020 and contains a final chapter that updates the impact of the
calamitous last year on the citizenship issue, dominated by the
coronavirus, racial unrest, and a bitterly fought presidential election.
Hanson argues that the Trump presidency pushed back against the forces
diminishing American citizenship with some modest success from 2017 to
2019, but the events of the past year led to a reversal of those gains,
and the prospect of greater threats than existed before..........To Read More....
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