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Article: At home abroad.(Book Review)
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- The Washington Monthly
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- January 1, 2003
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BEING AMERICA: Liberty, Commerce, and Violence in an American World by Jedediah Purdy Knopf, $24.00
IS AMERICA THE BENEFICENT protector of global liberties or a naughty rogue super-state? Such questions, previously confined to academic conferences and oak-paneled rooms at the Council on Foreign Relations, have become the quotidian fare of everything from cable news networks to the op-ed pages to online polls. But the nature of our newfound interest in other countries remains curiously solipsistic. We're still not really that interested in how other nations see the world. Rather, since 9/11, we've gone from thinking only about ourselves to thinking about what the ...