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American Exceptionalism: A Double-Edged Sword
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by Seymour Martin Lipset
Sales Rank: 30352
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Cover Type: Paperback with 352 pages
Published by: W. W. Norton & Company; New Ed edition April 1997
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0393316149
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0393316148
Book Dimensions:
8 x 5.4 x 0.9 inches
Weighs: 11.4 ounces
From Publishers Weekly
In this dense and extravagantly footnoted study, political scientist and Hoover Institute fellow Lipset (The First New Nation) marshals a daunting amount of material to defend an old but often maligned idea?that the United States, as a nation "born modern," without feudal baggage, remains (mostly for the better) culturally, politically and economically distinct from the European societies that spawned it. Lipset marches impassively over widely scattered territories here?the roots of American moralism and utopianism, the difficult history of American trade unionism, the unique experiences of blacks and Jews, the origins of so-called political correctness in the universities?and much of what he discovers is interesting. But the airless sociological prose and emphasis on opinion polls and "values" surveys may leave nonspecialist readers feeling somewhat oxygen-deprived. Lipset's book is most readable when he examines?as in his last chapter?possible gaps between American perception and reality.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Economist
Invariably perceptive and revealing.
Reader Reviews
First chapter is quite good on the basics of American Exceptionalism as Lipset sees it. But the rest of the book doesn't hang together very well. As previous reviewer noted, the chapter on intellectuals is quite interesting, and so is the chapter on Jews, but they don't fit in to any overall argument. These chapters were all published in many places over a considerable period of time, and it shows. Not a coherent work, but an interesting first chapter.
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