A Contest of Civilizations: Exposing the Crisis of American Exceptionalism in the Civil War Era (Andrew F. Lang - CH) grant S/L# 25147

S/L# 25147

slavery and sovereignty

every reporter who has covered the White House beat has believed with equal fervency that his or her journalistic rigor protects the country from danger

Ewell's Corps swept toward the strategically important Susquehanna River and the Pennsylvania capital looming beyond

A Contest of Civilizations: Exposing the Crisis of American Exceptionalism in the Civil War Era (Andrew F. Lang - CH) grant S/L# 25147by Andrew F. Lang Most mid nineteenth century Americans regarded the United States as an exceptional democratic republic that stood apart from a world seemingly riddled with revolutionary turmoil and aristocratic consolidation. Viewing themselves as distinct from and even superior to other societies, Americans considered their nation an unprecedented experiment in political moderation and constitutional democracy. But as abolitionism in England,