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... Americans born into the new dispensation ? The answer is , with difficulty . Evidence for the problem lies in an unresolved debate between what might be called radical and conservative discourses within the canon of American literature ...
... Americans born into the new dispensation ? The answer is , with difficulty . Evidence for the problem lies in an unresolved debate between what might be called radical and conservative discourses within the canon of American literature ...
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... American character ' have usually listed open government , physical and social mobility , enterprise , indi- vidualism and the faith in future possibilities . Perhaps one could add the belief in a distinctive American character itself ...
... American character ' have usually listed open government , physical and social mobility , enterprise , indi- vidualism and the faith in future possibilities . Perhaps one could add the belief in a distinctive American character itself ...
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... America as an egalitarian paradise . " Earlier this year Arthur Schlesinger began The Disuniting of America , his defense of the American melting pot ideal against what he perceives to be the destabil- izing forces of multiculturalism ...
... America as an egalitarian paradise . " Earlier this year Arthur Schlesinger began The Disuniting of America , his defense of the American melting pot ideal against what he perceives to be the destabil- izing forces of multiculturalism ...
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The Genetics of Celtic Populations | 37 |
An Essay on Survival | 59 |
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