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True Faith and Allegiance: Immigration and American Civic Nationalism
Ist Teil von
Perspectives on Politics, 2007, Vol.5 (3), p.646-647
Ort / Verlag
New York, USA: Cambridge University Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2007
Quelle
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
Beschreibungen/Notizen
True Faith and Allegiance: Immigration and American Civic
Nationalism. By Noah Pickus. Princeton: Princeton University Press,
2005. 272p. $35.00 cloth, $22.95 paper. Is civic nationalism an oxymoron? Noah Pickus does not think so, at
least not in America. Here, the best leaders have been able to combine a
“rational commitment to a common creed based on abstract
ideals” with a moderate nationalism valuing “tradition,
inherited opinion, and a set of obligations that flow from sharing a
distinctive history and culture” (p. 5). Civic nationalism, he
argues, is possible in theory and has been achieved in practice. At
pivotal moments in American history, leaders like James Madison and
Theodore Roosevelt found a way for “civic principles and American
nationalism” to reinforce each other (p. 5). Pickus calls for a new
emphasis on civic nationalism in our time and cautions against too quickly
dividing “civic nationalist positions into civic or
national positions alone” (p. 125). In this carefully argued if not
always persuasive book, he counsels a prudent policy of balancing
“the universal thrust of civic principles” with “the
particularist bond of nationalist sentiment” (p. 62). He bravely
challenges a new generation of civic nationalists to fight for that
balance today.