In the absence of a strong socialist tradition in the US, Bourne was prescient in his belief that new and experimental universal truths were to be forged through the democratic struggles of America's immigrant and racial outsiders. Bourne envisaged a transnational America - a country comprised of 30 distinct nationalities PHOTO (BLACK & WHITE): Breaking the faith: to Bourne's dismay, Woodrow Wilson took the US into the First World War in 1917. [Extracted from the article]
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