American Exceptionalism(English, Paperback, Lipset Seymour Martin)

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American Exceptionalism(English, Paperback, Lipset Seymour Martin) is written by Lipset Seymour Martin and published by WW Norton & Co. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0393316149 (ISBN 10) and 9780393316148 (ISBN 13).

"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 States, why Americans are resistant to absolute quotas as a way to integrate blacks and other minorities, and why American religion and foreign policy have a moralistic, crusading streak.