American exceptionalizm?

[Evan Morris]

Jeez, I guess I should pay more attention to the news. I was just
dredging that up from my memories as a red diaper baby.

On 02/23/2012 03:28 PM, Ben Zimmer wrote:
> More on the history of the phrase from Mark Liberman on Language Log today:
>
> http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3798
>
> I also touched on it in a Word Routes column last year:
>
> http://www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/wordroutes/2889/
>
> --bgz
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 3:22 PM, Evan Morris wrote:
>>
>> "American exceptionalism" was a specific "ideological error" that was
>> said to flourish in the post-Stalin CPUSA as the legacy of Earl Browder,
>> who maintained that the democratic history and culture of the US made a
>> Leninist party (and proletarian revolution) unnecessary. It was still
>> being debated in those terms in left circles as of the 1970s.
>>
>> On 02/22/2012 09:32 AM, Tom Zurinskas wrote:
>>> What's the phrase "American exceptionalism" all about?
>>>
>>> I do not think it means what we think it means.
>>>
>>> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/books/chap1/americanexceptionalism.htm
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