The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America

The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America

by Victor Davis Hanson
The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America

The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America

by Victor Davis Hanson

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Overview

The New York Times bestselling author of The Case for Trump explains the decline and fall of the once cherished idea of American citizenship.

Human history is full of the stories of peasants, subjects, and tribes. Yet the concept of the “citizen” is historically rare—and was among America’s most valued ideals for over two centuries. But without shock treatment, warns historian Victor Davis Hanson, American citizenship as we have known it may soon vanish.

In The Dying Citizen, Hanson outlines the historical forces that led to this crisis. The evisceration of the middle class over the last fifty years has made many Americans dependent on the federal government. Open borders have undermined the idea of allegiance to a particular place. Identity politics have eradicated our collective civic sense of self. And a top-heavy administrative state has endangered personal liberty, along with formal efforts to weaken the Constitution.

As in the revolutionary years of 1848, 1917, and 1968, 2020 ripped away our complacency about the future. But in the aftermath, we as Americans can rebuild and recover what we have lost. The choice is ours.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781541647534
Publisher: Basic Books
Publication date: 10/05/2021
Pages: 432
Sales rank: 40,570
Product dimensions: 9.30(w) x 5.90(h) x 1.40(d)

About the Author

Victor Davis Hanson is a senior fellow in military history at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and a professor emeritus of classics at California State University, Fresno. He is the author of over two dozen books, most recently The Case for Trump. He lives in Selma, California.

Table of Contents

Introduction Pre- and Post-American Citizens 1

Part 1 Precitizens

Chapter 1 Peasants 21

Chapter 2 Residents 63

Chapter 3 Tribes 99

Part 2 Postcitizens

Chapter 4 Unelected 155

Chapter 5 Evolutionary 215

Chapter 6 Globalists 269

Epilogue Citizenship, the Annus Horribilis, and the November 2020 Election 323

Afterword 347

Notes 357

Index 416

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