The Myth of American Exceptionalism (repost)
The Myth of American Exceptionalism By Mr Godfrey Hodgson
Publisher: Yale University Press 2009 | 240 Pages | ISBN: 0300125704 | PDF | 1 MB
Publisher: Yale University Press 2009 | 240 Pages | ISBN: 0300125704 | PDF | 1 MB
The notion of America as the divinely anointed homeland of freedom, bravery, democracy and economic opportunity, with everything to teach the world and nothing to learn from it, is so entrenched that this perceptive portrait of America the Ordinary seems downright radical. Hodgson (Woodrow Wilson's Right Hand) situates America as an outpost of Europe, always a part (and not always the most advanced part) of an evolving progressive, liberal, capitalist civilization spanning the Atlantic.