American Exceptionalism A Double-Edged Sord [Paperback]

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. [A] magisterial attempt to distill a lifetime of learning about America into a persuasive brief . . . [by] the dean of American political sociologists.Invariably perceptive and revealing.An illuminating new book.Is America unique? One of our major political analysts explores the deeply held but often inarticulated beliefs that shape the American creed.