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Book Review


Attendant Cruelties: Nation and Nationalism in American History. By Patrice Higonnet. (New York: Other, 2007. l, 378 pp. $25.95, ISBN 978-1-59051-235-7.)
Patrice Higonnet, a French historian at Harvard University, seeks to come to terms with his adopted country. Driven by a profound disgust with the George W. Bush regime, Higonnet ranges across American history in this book seeking sources for his love-hate relationship with America. This is less a study intended for an academic audience than a testament to one anguished scholar's moral and political conscience informed by cosmopolitan, universalistic, and abstract principles. Almost all the citations of original sources come from secondary sources; these sources are both eclectic and far ranging. The resulting analysis mixes past and present, anecdote and world-historical event, profound insight and Cambridge provincialism. . . .
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