Mythbusting Nordic Exceptionalism

I‘ve been waiting for a book like this for a while now.

As an undergraduate writing for the liberal-progressive campus paper, I volunteered to blurb a few titles a week from boxes of books Ralph Nader sent us after an interview. One in particular rattled me. Steven Hill’s Europe’s Promise—exactly what it sounds like, a scholarly promotion of the “European Way” and an affront to American exceptionalism—sparked my conversion. It culled up some soul-searching questions. Does everyone not have that root sense of “Thank God I’m an American”? Do most educated Americans, in fact, not? The much-maligned “knee-jerk patriot,” is that… me?