January 9, 2009
Godfrey Hodgson on America's Deluded Sense of Self
"I'm running the risk of being tarred and feathered," Godfrey Hodgson says from his home in London. He is speaking about the potential fallout from his new book, The Myth of American Exceptionalism (to be published this month by Yale University Press), an assault on the deep-rooted American belief that the United States is morally and politically superior to other nations. The country has embraced a "boilerplate and pompous version of American exceptionalism," he says, that is "a dangerous
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