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American Exceptionalism

A New History of an Old Idea
  • Ian Tyrrell
2022
The University of Chicago Press

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  • Book cover featuring abstract watercolor splotches behind the title "American Exceptionalism."
    Book Review

    "A New History of an Old Idea"

    On Ian Tyrrell’s "American Exceptionalism: A New History of an Old Idea."
    by Richard Cándida Smith via Society for U.S. Intellectual History on April 17, 2022
  • Pastoral landscape with classical architecture. Copy after Thomas Cole’s “Dream of Arcadia”, by Robert Seldon Duncanson, 1852.
    Book Excerpt

    An Ugly Preeminence

    On the devout abolitionists who excoriated American exceptionalism.
    by Ian Tyrrell via Lapham’s Quarterly on January 26, 2022
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