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Title: American Exceptionalism: A Double-Edged Sword by Seymour Martin Lipset ISBN: 0-393-31614-9 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: April, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Some good stuff here, but basically a collection of articles
Comment: First chapter is quite good on the basics of American Exceptionalism as Lipset sees it. But the rest of the book doesn't hang together very well. As previous reviewer noted, the chapter on intellectuals is quite interesting, and so is the chapter on Jews, but they don't fit in to any overall argument. These chapters were all published in many places over a considerable period of time, and it shows. Not a coherent work, but an interesting first chapter.
Rating: 5
Summary: Chapter 6 by itself is worth the price.
Comment: As someone lucky enough to be employed at an American university, I really appreciated Chapter 6: "American Intellectuals-Mostly on the Left, Some Politically Incorrect." On page 188 we read [as a quote] "American academic Marxism is politically irrelevant and marginal and compensates for its political nullity by seeking hegemony within academic institutions" Same page:"As Hayek noted half a century ago, in an analysis that is even more true today, the conservative bourgeoisie control the economy while the campus anti-establishmentarians dominate intellectual life in the humanitites and much of the social sciences..." Lipset also makes the stimulating suggestion that as vulgar Marxism has been discredited in the social sciences it has retreated into the humanities
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Title: The Global Resurgence of Democracy by Larry Diamond, Marc F. Plattner ISBN: 0801853052 Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr Pub. Date: July, 1996 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: World Development Report 1997: The State in a Changing World: English Version (Paper) by The World Bank, World Bank Group ISBN: 0195211146 Publisher: World Bank Pub. Date: July, 1997 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: Democracy in America by Alexis De Tocqueville, Richard D. Heffner ISBN: 0451528123 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: 05 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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Title: Unveiling Traditions: Postcolonial Islam in a Polycentric World by Anouar Majid ISBN: 082232623X Publisher: Duke Univ Pr (Txt) Pub. Date: December, 2000 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: Consumption (Key Ideas) by Robert Bocock ISBN: 0415069629 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: March, 1994 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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