{"id":38122,"date":"2020-02-24T15:37:35","date_gmt":"2020-02-24T21:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=38122"},"modified":"2020-02-24T15:37:35","modified_gmt":"2020-02-24T21:37:35","slug":"38122","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=38122","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Give-Me-Liberty-Americas-Exceptional\/dp\/1541699130\">Give Me Liberty: A History of America&#8217;s Exceptional Idea<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div>Nationalism is inevitable: It supplies feelings of belonging, identity, and recognition. It binds us to our neighbors and tells us who we are. But increasingly &#8212; from the United States to India, from Russia to Burma &#8212; nationalism is being invoked for unworthy ends: to disdain minorities or to support despots. As a result, nationalism has become to many a dirty word.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In\u00a0<i>Give Me Liberty<\/i>, award-winning historian and biographer Richard Brookhiser offers up a truer and more inspiring story of American nationalism as it has evolved over four hundred years. He examines America&#8217;s history through thirteen documents that made the United States a new country in a new world: a free country. We are what we are because of them; we stay true to what we are by staying true to them.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Americans have always sought liberty, asked for it, fought for it; every victory has been the fulfillment of old hopes and promises. This is our nationalism, and we should be proud of it.<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Give Me Liberty: A History of America&#8217;s Exceptional Idea Nationalism is inevitable: It supplies feelings of belonging, identity, and recognition. It binds us to our neighbors and tells us who we are. But increasingly &#8212; from the United States to India, from Russia to Burma &#8212; nationalism is being invoked for unworthy ends: to disdain &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=38122\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38123,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38122\/revisions\/38123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}