[Hahn's] book makes an important case for vigilance in the face of extremism and warns against telling the history of the United States as one of inevitable progress. -David Leonhardt, New York Times Book ReviewIf 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.
