TY - BOOK AU - Hodgson,Godfrey TI - The myth of American exceptionalism SN - 0300125704 (cloth : alk. paper) PY - 2009/// CY - New Haven PB - Yale University Press KW - Exceptionalism KW - United States KW - National characteristics, American KW - Nationalism KW - Civilization KW - Foreign relations KW - 1989- KW - Politics and government N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-204) and index; A city set upon a hill -- Myth and reality in the birth of a nation -- From civil war to cold war -- From liberal consensus to conservative ascendancy -- The other exceptionalism -- The corruption of the best ER -