American Exceptionalism: A Double-Edged Sword

358 Pages·1998·22.167 MB·English

by  Seymour Martin Lipset

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AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM
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BY SEYMOUR MARTIN LIPSET
(IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER)
Agrarian Socialism
Union Democracy (with Martin Trow and James S. Coleman)
Social Mobility in Industrial Society (with Reinhard Bendix)
Prejudice and Society (with Earl Raab)
Political Man: The Social Bases of Politics
The First New Nation: The United States in Historical
and Comparative Perspective
Estudiantes universitarios y politica en el tercer mundo
Revolution and Counterrevolution
The Politics of Unreason: Right-Wing Extremism
in America 1790-1970 (with Earl Raab)
Group Life in America
Rebellion in the University
Professors, Unions, and American Higher Education
(with Everett C. Ladd)
Academics, Politics, and the 1972 Election (with Everett C. Ladd)
The Divided Academy: Professors and Politics
(with Everett C. Ladd)
Education and Politics at Harvard (with David Riesman)
Dialogues on American Politics (with Irving Louis Horowitz)
The Confidence Gap: Business, Labor and Government
in the Public Mind
Consensus and Conflict: Essays in Political Sociology
Continental Divide: Values and Institutions of the
United States and Canada
Distinctive Cultures: Canada and the United States
The Power ofJ ewish Education
Jews in the New American Scene (with Earl Raab)
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AMERICAN
EXCEPTIONALISM
A Double-Edged Sword
NEW YORK LONDON
Copyright © 1996 by Seymour Martin Lipset
All rights reserved
Printed in the United States of America
First Edition
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Book design by Margaret M. Wagner
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Lipset, Seymour Martin.
American exceptionalism : a double-edged sword / Seymour Martin
Lipset.
p. cm.
Includes index.
1. National characteristics, American. 2. United States—
Civilization. I. Title.
E169.1.L5447 1995
973—dc20 95-6147
ISBN: 978-0-393-3 1614-8
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