Introduction: the death and life of an exceptional concept / Dale Carter -- Recovering America's historic diversity: beyond exceptionalism / Joyce Appleby -- A city upon a hill: American literature and the ideology of exceptionalism / Thomas B. Byers -- Writing, criticism and the imagination of nation: American exceptionalism and the evolution of American studies / James Mendelsohn -- Technology and cultural difference / David E. Nye -- No special relation: British perceptions of ante-bellum America's growing pains / Inger Hunnerup Dalsgaard -- Newt's clean slate, or American exceptionalism in the information age / Eric Guthey -- 'A divided empire': African Americans, the South, and the narrative of American exceptionalism / Peter Bardaglio -- A college upon a hill: exceptionalism and American higher education / John Halsey and W. Bruce Leslie -- 'They came to lawyers, you know, what can you do?' American exceptionalism and judicial activism / Helle Porsdam -- 'Against any winds that blow': American exceptionalism, multiculturalism, and judicial review / Jody W. Pennington -- The problem of American exceptionalism: a reconsideration / Michael Kammen.
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