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Title: Chosen People: The Big Idea That Shaped England and America by Clifford Longley ISBN: 0-340-78657-4 Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Pub. Date: March, 2003 Format: Paperback List Price(USD): $14.95

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Summary: What's so special about Anglo-Americans?
Comment: If you wonder why so many Americans and English people are convinced that their respective countries are better than others, this book will explain all. Through the Catholic belief that the Church had replaced the Jews as God's chosen people, and the English Reformation view that England - Church and State - had replaced the Roman Church as God's chosen, Americans came to see their Independence as the sign that they had replaced the English. Although ordinary people are not aware of the complex history behind their ideas, they continue to nurse their sense of moral superiority. It is an attitude guaranteed to breed resentment and hatred in the rest of the world, and it has got the two countries into deep trouble in Muslim countries. If diagnosis is the first step to healing, this book should help to cure Anglo-American arrogance. The scholarship is serious and solid, but the writing is never turgid, and there are plenty of surprises along the way.

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