Description: If your reaction to the January 6, 2021, insurrection at the Capitol was to think, 'That's not us, ' think again: in Illiberal America, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian uncovers a powerful illiberalism as deep-seated in the American past as the founding ideals.
Brief description: Steven Hahn is an acclaimed historian whose works include A Nation Under Our Feet, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Bancroft Prize, and A Nation Without Borders. He is professor of history at New York University.
Review Quotes: In a tour de force, Steven Hahn makes a very powerful argument that illiberalism--and not conservatism, much less fascism--is the best way to think of this country's long history of opposition to political equality. In the glut of books hoping to make sense of the current crisis, Hahn's Illiberal America stands out as the most nuanced, elegant, and convincing.--Greg Grandin, author of The End of the Myth