God's Country?

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Walter Russell Mead looks at Fundamentalists, Liberals, and Evangelicals and their impact on US politics in the latest edition of Foreign Affairs

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A Short History of American Exceptionalism in Letters and Speeches

American Exceptionalism is a concept that has been long debated, but by and large only men who have believed in such a concept have received the vote of their fellow countrymen to be their leader. Below are documents that proclaim the “exceptional” experience that is America. Anyone who has never read all of these documents is poorer by far, but those who have read them and thought on them are greatly enriched.

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