Victor Davis Hanson is a senior fellow in military history at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and a professor emeritus of classics at California State University, Fresno. He is the author of over two dozen books, most recently The Case for Trump. He lives in Selma, California.
"Among public intellectuals writing within a secular framework
about America's troubles, Victor Davis Hanson towers above the
rest."--First Things
"Hanson is well-positioned to describe the evolution of citizenship
from ancient times through the modern era, and especially the
assumptions about citizenship underlying America's constitutional
order... Hanson presents, clearly and concisely, a case that
critics will struggle to refute. His troubling argument has
far-reaching implications. The Dying Citizen is a book that
all Americans should read, then discuss with friends and
neighbors."--Claremont Review of Books
"Mr. Hanson, an accomplished classicist and a senior fellow at the
Hoover Institution, is one of the great amalgamators of American
political writing. He has a particular gift for bringing together a
dizzying array of events, controversies and ideas and making sense
of them by advancing a coherent argument that incorporates
thousands of years of history... Mr. Hanson hits hard, but I don't
find his analysis unfair or partisan. There is enormous value,
moreover, in thinking about toxic political developments not as
problems of the moment but as destructive pathologies to which all
societies are prone at all times."--Wall Street Journal
"A powerful and carefully developed argument for preserving
American citizenship."--American Thinker
"As Victor Davis Hanson shows in his learned, powerful, and
troubling new book, The Dying Citizen, the steady devolution
of citizenship speaks volumes about where we are today and where we
seem to be heading... Hanson lays out this grim diagnosis with his
usual clarity and brilliance, moving easily from his deep
specialized knowledge of the ancient Greek and Roman world through
savvy observations about present-day politics and American
society."--The New Criterion
"Indispensable... Hanson's immensely erudite and inspiriting book
offers a most welcome corrective to those influential forces and
doctrines in our midst that conspire to delegitimize the citizen
and citizenship as such. In doing so, he provides us with hope that
our society still has within it significant powers of
rejuvenation."--National Review
"Required reading for all those who seriously want to engage in the
fieriest issues of our days at their most thoughtful levels of
depth."--Epoch Times
"The Dying Citizen is essential reading for any American who
cares about the fate of our nation."--Mark R. Levin
"Citizenship brings all the enduring principles of democracy into
the sphere of the individual. It honors the human need for a
collective identity even as it makes room for the individual to
pursue happiness. In this remarkably illuminating book, Victor
Davis Hanson shows how so many contemporary problems--identity
politics, the border crisis, bloated government, etc.--have only
worsened for the lack of a vigorous and clarifying idea of
citizenship. In this deeply democratic idea, Hanson points to a way
beyond what ails us."
--Shelby Steele, author of Shame
"In The Dying Citizen, Victor Davis Hanson shows once again
why he is America's premier scholar, writer, and political
observer. Drawing on his training as a classicist, and clearly
informed by his deep personal experience living and farming in
California's San Joaquin Valley, Hanson has written a tour de force
on the history, rights, and responsibilities of modern citizenship,
and the galaxy of forces that are undermining the concept of
American citizenship today. Immensely enlightening but also deeply
unsettling, The Dying Citizen is a wake-up call for our
countrymen who want to preserve the American ideal for future
generations."--Rep. Devin Nunes
"Once again Victor Davis Hanson has written a masterly account of a
great public affairs crisis. He has given a learned history of the
concept and indispensability in a democracy of responsible
citizenship; has perceptively chronicled how it has been undermined
in the US; how Donald Trump in his sometimes frantic way tried to
revive it, and of the tense but not unhopeful current prospects.
This book is a concise masterpiece that all serious citizens should
read."
--Conrad Black
"Politicians often speak to "my fellow citizens," implying a kind
of common project among all citizens. In America, that project is
our shared devotion to our founding principles. Victor Davis Hanson
explains in The Dying Citizen, however, that this uniquely
American concept of citizenship is imperiled--whether from ancient
threats like economic stagnation, open borders, and racial discord,
or modern ones like unelected bureaucrats, anti-Constitution
progressives, and globalists. As only he can, Hanson weaves
together history, philosophy, and contemporary headlines to
diagnose our current woes and to remind them that the cure lies in
what is best in them and in America."--Senator Tom Cotton
"The great glory of the democratic revolution of the eighteenth and
nineteenth centuries was extending the blessings of citizenship to
anyone and everyone who embraced the principles and
responsibilities of self-governing nations. As Victor Davis Hanson
explains, by subtle degrees we're reversing course, through a
deliberate attempt to dilute and eventually erase national
identity, sovereignty, borders, and the meaningful content of
citizenship itself. But if everyone is a "citizen of everywhere,"
it means they are citizens of nowhere, with the return of
autocratic rule the final result. The hour is late, and we have
Hanson to thank for this capacious account of what we need to
recover."--Steven F. Hayward, author of Patriotism Is Not
Enough
"This is a book about an ongoing and threatening change of 'regime,
' which means a change not only in how we are governed but also in
how we live. To understand such a thing requires perspective:
Victor Hanson is deeply educated in the classics, where knowledge
of regimes was first developed. It also requires a close
observation of what is happening today, about which he writes
insightfully and in profusion. In this book, Hanson demonstrates
yet again his command across time and for our time. This book and
he are a treasure."
--Larry P. Arnn, president of Hillsdale College
"This is not a drill--this is the real thing. If you don't believe
that the survival of the American republic hangs in the balance,
you must read Victor Davis Hanson's relentless exposition of the
facts. America's free citizenry is at imminent risk of defeat at
the hands of an unelected Deep State allied to a globalist elite
that flouts American law with impunity and plans to jettison the
Constitution. Even if you think you're informed and alarmed about
these trends, Hanson's brilliant presentation will leave you much
better prepared to address these dangers. Get this book into the
hands of everyone you know."--David Goldman, deputy editor of Asia
Times and author of You Will Be Assimilated
"Victor Davis Hanson's book is not a complaint nor a polemic but
rather a fine-grained diagnosis of a very serious disease. Its
symptoms are all around us: the fragmentation of America's national
identity by the assertion of not merely separate but separatist
identities with the vehement support of the most privileged of all
Americans. May this brilliant diagnosis lead us to a cure."--Edward
N. Luttwak, author of The Rise of China vs. the Logic of Strategy
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