mardi 28 février 2012

?Fairness and Freedom: A History of Two Open Societies, New Zealand and the United States,? by David Hackett Fischer

It?s said you cannot truly understand where you?re from until you?ve spent time elsewhere, and that?s perhaps especially true of a place as expansive and unwieldy as the United States, a continent-spanning federation riven by regional fissures and philosophical contradictions. Only by taking a step back ? preferably way back ? can one see it from the outside in its august complexity, compare and contrast it with other variations of the human experiment, and tease out the ideas and ideals that hold it together and those that distinguish it from anywhere else.

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