The United States is a diverse nation of immigrants and their ancestors. With such diversity, and no one origination point for its people, how do we describe what the United States is and what its people stand for?
What is the underlying ideological current that links Americans together regardless of their ancestral or regional diversity?
We explore “American Exceptionalism” and the ideas it embodies with John D. Wilsey, author of American Exceptionalism and Civil Religion: Reassessing the History of an Idea.
Show Notes: http://www.benfranklinsworld.com/054
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