American Exceptionalism by Seymour Martin Lipset
A Double-Edged Sword
Argues that the United States developed a distinct political culture and institutions—rooted in its colonial origins, frontier experience, immigration patterns, and civic traditions—that emphasize individualism, belief in equality of opportunity, religiosity, weak socialist tendencies, and suspicion of centralized authority; these traits helped produce economic dynamism, political participation, and social mobility but also generated persistent inequalities, racial exclusion, anti-intellectual tendencies, and periodic social tensions, making American exceptionalism a mixed or ambivalent legacy.
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- 1996
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