MixedThe NationTo force indigenous demands for sovereignty into the frame of US national history, she’s reinterpreted them as internal dissent, as part of a rich debate about how to achieve shared national goals. She’s turned a country containing multiple nations into a single diverse nation. The problem is that seeing the \'struggle for native nationhood\' as a bid to help the US nation \'live up to its ideals\'—Lepore likens it to the civil rights movement—is to miss the point. Overseas territories are another blind spot, another part of the country that doesn’t fit Lepore’s nation-centered approach ... Lepore’s national frame consistently directs her readers’ gaze inward; it’s the history of a \'we.\' She rightly has an inclusive understanding of that \'we,\' but she exhibits little interest in anything outside of it ... Driving the demagogues out of the Barnes & Noble will require more than just taking back the nation as an object of serious historical inquiry. Lepore also sees a need to show that object in a more flattering light. Whereas many of her colleagues narrate US history as a tragedy and a chronicle of oppression, Lepore sets out to capture a fuller range of feeling ... Lepore’s relatively upbeat tone is more than a sensibility; it’s a politics ... It it’s hard not to wonder, as the evidence mounts daily that the old rules no longer apply, if the ground that Lepore is digging her heels into isn’t an ice shelf, melting beneath her feet.