Exceptional America: What Divides Americans from the World and from Each Other Audiobook (Free)

Within this provocative reserve, Mugambi Jouet describes why Americans are more divided than other Westerners over basic issues, including wealth inequality, health care, climate change, evolution, gender jobs, abortion, gay rights, sex, gun control, mass incarceration, the death penalty, torture, human rights, and war.

Elevated in Paris with a French mom and Kenyan father, Jouet then lived in the Bible Belt, Manhattan, and beyond. Sketching motivation from Alexis de Tocqueville, he wields his about Exceptional America: What Divides People in america from the World and from ONE ANOTHER multicultural sensibility to parse the way the intense polarization of U.S. conservatives and liberals has turned into a key dimensions of American exceptionalism-an idea widely misunderstood as American superiority. While exceptionalism once was a way to obtain strength, it may now spell decline, as unique features of U.S. background, politics, law, tradition, religion, and race relationships foster grave issues. They also reveal the interesting ideological evolution of American conservatism, which lengthy predated Trumpism.

Anti-intellectualism, conspiracy-mongering, a visceral suspicion of government, and Christian fundamentalism are more common in America than the remaining American world-Europe, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.