http://www.newamerica.net/taxonomy/term/205 The taxonomy view with a depth of 0. en http://www.newamerica.net/publications/books/being_america <div class="teaser-content"> <p>Selected reviews of Being America are featured below: </p>Los Angeles Times <p> Tuesday, February 18, 2003 We in America tend to think of ourselves as the world&#39;s universal nation. &quot;Being French is an affectation, being Russian a perversion, being from the world&#39;s poor regions a deprivation; but being American is just being human.... [W]e secretly believe that everyone is born American, but that certain people become something else due to bad upbringing,&quot; writes social critic Jedediah Purdy in &quot;Being America,&quot; an incisive and timely book that anyone concerned with the looming war with Iraq should read.</p> <p>In this&hellip; <a href="/publications/books/being_america">more</a></div><!-- /.teaser-content --> Jedediah Purdy Knopf The Bernard L. Schwartz Fellows Program Books Sat, 01 Feb 2003 04:00:00 -0500 adminn 1074 at http://www.newamerica.net