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Article: God Save the Anglosphere
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- The American Spectator
- Article date:
- June 1, 2008
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God Save the Anglosphere God and Gold: Britain, America and the Making of the Modern World By Walter Russell Mead (ALFRED A. KNOPF, 464 PAGES, $27.95)
MANY YEARS AGO I heard a radio disc jockey describe Howard Hanson's great Symphony No. 2 as "intensely romantic, and intensely American." I agreed with that assessment. So imagine my surprise when a few years later I discovered that someone in Hollywood thought that one of the main themes of that symphony would be perfect for the soundtrack to the science fiction space flick Alien. Similarly, most Americans, who view the United States overall as a beneficent world power, are surprised to find that many people outside our borders see things ...