Table of Contents

1. “People of Plenty”: The American Economic Exception.- 2. “Land of Liberty”: The American Governmental Exception.- 3. “No Business Like Show Business”: The American Media Exception.- 4. “Dangerous Nation”: The American Power Exception.  

About the Author

Frank J. Lechner is Professor of Sociology at Emory University, USA. He has published World Culture: Origins and Consequences (2004; with John Boli), The Netherlands: Globalization and National Identity (2008), and Globalization: The Making of World Society (2009). With John Boli he edited The Globalization Reader (fifth edition, 2015).