American Exceptionalism: A Double-Edged Sword
American values are quite complex, writes Seymour Martin Lipset, particularly because of paradoxes within our culture that permit pernicious and beneficial social phenomena to arise simultaneously from the same basic beliefs.Born out of revolution, the United States has always considered itself an exceptional country of citizens unified by an allegiance to a common set of ideals, individualism, anti-statism, populism, and egalitarianism. This ideology, Professor Lipset observes, defines the limits of political debate in the United States and shapes our society.American Exceptionalism explains why socialism has never taken hold in the United S…
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- ISBN: 978-0-393-31614-8
- EAN: 9780393316148
- Produktnummer: 24091334
- Verlag: W W Norton & Co
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1997
- Seitenangabe: 352 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D2.5 cm 499 g
- Auflage: Revised
- Gewicht: 499
Über den Autor
Seymour Martin Lipset is the Hazel Professor of Public Policy at George Mason University and a fellow of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
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