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To the Flag: The Unlikely History of the Pledge of Allegiance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2007

Kevin Mattson
Kevin Mattson
Affiliation:
Ohio University
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To the Flag: The Unlikely History of the Pledge of Allegiance. By Richard J. Ellis. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2005. 312p. $29.95 cloth, $15.95 paper.

This is an intelligent book about the strange story of American patriotism. Strange because America is much more of an “imagined community,” to use Benedict Anderson's evocative concept, than most Western European states. Also strange because, as Richard Ellis points out, it has been so contested over the years.

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BOOK REVIEWS: AMERICAN POLITICS
Information
Perspectives on Politics , Volume 5 , Issue 1 , March 2007 , pp. 169 - 170
Copyright
© 2007 American Political Science Association

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