A review by cafesteu
A Nation Among Nations: America's Place in World History by Thomas Bender

4.0

This book places U.S. history in a global context and contradicts notions of "exceptionalism" created by the more traditional nationalist history one sees of America. It's major fault I think lies in its moralizing. Though his goal is noble, any historian should cringe at the thought of an author attempting to make "good world citizens" out of people - it threatens to replace one group's moralizing with another, and that's a dangerous place to head, no matter what the intention.