TY - BOOK AU - Litke,Justin B. ED - Project Muse. TI - Twilight of the republic: empire and exceptionalism in the American political tradition SN - 9780813142210 AV - E169.1 .L56 2013 U1 - 306.20973 23 PY - 2013///] CY - Lexington, Kentucky PB - University Press of Kentucky KW - Political culture KW - United States KW - History KW - National characteristics, American KW - Exceptionalism KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-205) and index; The problem of American exceptionalism -- John Winthrop : a divinely sanctioned, practically circumscribed colony -- The founders : a providentially guided, temporally bound country -- Abraham Lincoln : an ideally united, potentially unbound union -- Albert Beveridge : a racially defined, imperially aimed nation -- Conclusion : the possibility of a new and traditional American political order UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780813142210/ ER -