| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.3

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Book Review

The Lost Promise of Patriotism: Debating American Identity, 1890–1920. By Jonathan M. Hansen. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. xxii, 255 pp. Cloth, $51.00, ISBN 0-226-31583-5. Paper, $19.00, ISBN 0-226-31584-3.)

Spurred by the marginalization of dissent during the 1991 Gulf War and with an eye on the ongoing debate about globalization and the viability of the nation-state, this highly engaged study searches out a democratic political tradition that does not "cede the rhetorical terrain of the nation to cultural and political conservatives" (p. 96). Jonathan M. Hansen discovers in the work of William James, Eugene Debs, John Dewey, Jane Addams, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Randolph Bourne a "cosmopolitan patriotism" that incorporated plurality and dissent within the orbit of civic responsibility yet "invoked a republican ethic to counter their era's rampant individualism" (p. 69). Moreover, Hansen's cosmopolitans fostered a democratic ethos, he claims, without nostalgia for precapitalist community or preindustrial proprietary capitalism.

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