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America Right or Wrong

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Country
  
United Kingdom

Publication date
  
2012

Pages
  
296

Originally published
  
2012

Page count
  
296

Publisher
  
Oxford University Press

Language
  
English

Media type
  
Print

Dewey Decimal
  
320.54097309051

Author
  
Anatol Lieven

ISBN
  
9780199660254

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Subject
  
Politics of the United States

Similar
  
Anatol Lieven books, Nationalism books

America Right or Wrong: An Anatomy of American Nationalism is a 2012 book by the British author and academic Anatol Lieven. A separate, earlier version was published in 2004.

Contents

Synopsis

The book investigates the far-right in American politics, the radicalisation of the Republican Party and the Tea Party movement. The book also discusses the concept of American exceptionalism.

Reception

In Foreign Affairs the book was described as 'intelligent and often provocative' whilst in The Guardian the book was praised by Martin Woollacott who wrote 'We should have seen it coming. All the signs were there in the 1990s - the mania about resisting outside influences, the narrow religious beliefs, the harking back to a golden age, the sense of being under threat from modernity, the readiness to use violent means. The roots of it went back centuries. But it took the attacks of 9/11 for us to realise how powerful was this burgeoning extremism....We are not, of course, talking here about Islam or about al-Qaida and Osama bin Laden, but about America. It is Anatol Lieven's contention in this illuminating book that Bin Laden's assault on the United States stripped away many of the remaining restraints on the intolerant, irrational, and self-destructive side of American nationalism. Whether this nationalism is a greater problem than that represented by Islamic extremism is a moot point, but it is clear that the combination of the two could bring disaster on us all'. In the London Review of Books the work was praised as 'fascinating and incisive...a compelling argument'.

References

America Right or Wrong Wikipedia