PositiveFinancial TimesRosenblatt is impressive in the scope of her reading and at her best in identifying different usages of the term liberal ... Rosenblatt is at her best when showing that \'classical liberalism\' is largely a retrospective construct, justifying one modern ideological reading that seeks to minimize the role of the state and maximise that of the market ... So what game is Rosenblatt herself playing as a \'conceptual historian\'? Essentially she offers a history of the word itself; in which case, it seems, anyone is a liberal if they claim to be so ... Though Rosenblatt...[tries] to resist making it all a cozy Anglo-American party, [she has] written [a book] that can help readers on both sides of the Atlantic.
Steven Hahn
RaveThe Financial Times...rarely has there been a more forthright challenge to old stereotypes than in Steven Hahn’s A Nation Without Borders ... For those who still pine for the verities of American exceptionalism, A Nation without Borders may disappoint expectations; but, for the rest of us, it is rich in insight on the making of the US during a crucial period.
