American Exceptionalisms

American ExceptionalismsWide ranging, interdisciplinary look at the emergence and persistence of the concept of American Exceptionalism in US culture and history. An incisive and wide ranging look at a powerful force and myth in American culture and history, American Exceptionalisms reveals the centuries old persistence of the notion that the United States is an exceptional nation, in being both an example to the world and exempt from the rules of international law. Scholars

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