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Olivier Zunz, Why the American Century? Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. ix + 254 pp. $24.00 cloth.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 April 2001

Fredrik W. Thue
Fredrik W. Thue
Affiliation:
University of Oslo
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Abstract

Ever since its birth as a nation, America has contrasted itself to the image of Europe. Intellectuals from both sides of the Atlantic have contributed to the myth of the New World and tried to express the essence of America's “exceptionalism.”

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International Labor and Working-Class History , Volume 57 , April 2000 , pp. 148 - 150
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© 2000 The International Labor and Working-Class History Society

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