The American Experience - 2 Volumes in 1 Author:Primm, James Neal The American Experience is brief text, not a compendium of unadorned facts, and it is not a bound collection of non-sentence telegrams. The topics treated have been carefully selected for their relevance to the major themes and trends that give meaning and unity to America's past, and these themes and trends are treated fully. As the principal u... more »nifying theme, it emphasizes our national assumptions of American innocence, destiny, and superiority, and how these assumptions, interacting with the vast and readily available natural wealth of the continent, have led us first to be an example to the world, and later to become its policeman.
While the book is not a debunking tract, it takes a hard look at the gaps between our processions and practices, and is sharply critical of some of the directions we have taken.