BackStory

Mentioned on the Show

• Kramer, Paul. The Blood of Government: Race, Empire, the United States, and the Philippines. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006.
• Peterson, Mark. The Price of Redemption: The Spiritual Economy of Puritan New England. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997.
• “A Model of Christian Charity” by John Winthrop (the “City upon a Hill” sermon)
• “America the Beautiful” (Ray Charles version)

Outside Links

• A selection of guest Katherine Meizel’s music criticism for Slate.
• Sweet Land of Liberty: Callista Gingrich’s children’s book that follows Ellis the Elephant through the moments of American history that made the United States exceptional.
• “Q&A: Ken Levine’s Brave New World of BioShock Infinite“: A video game designer takes inspiration from American Exceptionalism.

Works Consulted

• Berman, Paul. “Under the Beds of the Reds.” The New York Times. Web. 23 March 1999. <http://www.nytimes.com>.
• Communist Part of the United States of America. Thesis and Resolutions for the Seventh National Convention of the Communisty Party of the U.S.A. New York: Workers Library Publishers, 1930.
• Dorrien, Gary. The Obama Question: A Progressive Perspective. New York: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2012.
• Fried, Albert. Communism in America: A History in Documents. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997.
• Friedman, Uri. “‘American Exceptionalism’: A Short History.” Foreign Policy. Web. 18 June 2012. <http://foreignpolicy.com>.
• Kramer, Paul. “Empires, Exceptions, and Anglo-Saxons: Race and Rule between the British and United States Empires, 1880-1910.” The Journal of American History 88, no. 4 (2002): 1315-1353.
• Liberman, Mark. “The Third Life of American Exceptionalism.” Language Log. Web. 23 February 2012. <http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu>.
• Lovestone, Jay. The American Labor Movement: Its Past, Its Present, Its Future. New York: Workers Age Publishing Ass’n, 1932.
• McCoy, Terrence. “How Josef Stalin Invented ‘American Exceptionalism’”. The Atlantic. Web. March 2012. <http://www.theatlantic.com/>.
• Morgan, Ted. A Covert Life: Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist, and Spymaster. New York: Random House, 1999.
• Niebuhr, Reinhold. The Irony of American History. New York: Scribner, 1952.