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In this timely new study, one of our major political analysts, Seymour Martin Lipset, explores the deeply held but often inarticulated beliefs that shape America's society and thought. Is this country in the throes of a revolution from the right? Is it in decline morally? Is Japan about to replace us as the leading economic power? Why does the United States have the highest crime rate, the most persons per capita in prison? Why is our electoral turnout so low? Why are we the most open, socially mobile society and the most unequally developed nation in income distribution? Why is America the…
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4 editions · 2 languages- Hardcover · English · 1998Replica Books · 354 pages · 9780735100268
- Other · English · 1997W. W. Norton & Company · 352 pages · 9780393316148
- Other · English · 1996W.W. Norton · 352 pages · 9780393037258
- Other · Spanish · 2000El excepcionalismo norteamericanoFondo de Cultura Económica · 447 pages · 9789681657963
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