Far from a special place: Trump sinks the last US myth

Il Fatto Quotidiano

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by John Torpey* [ENGLISH VERSION] When I started the university, now almost half a century ago, I was assigned the reading of a book entitled The Liberal Tradition in America [The Liberal Tradition in America] by an eminent scholar named Louis Hartz. The book was then considered a fundamental contribution to the history of American exceptionalism, the idea that the United States would occupy a special place in the destiny of humanity and, in par…