American Exceptionalism and American ..., Roberto Sirvent
American Exceptionalism and American ..., Roberto Sirvent
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American Exceptionalism and American Innocence
A People's History of Fake News--From The Revolutionary War to The War on Terror

Author: Roberto Sirvent, Danny Haiphong, Glen Ford, Ajamu Baraka

Narrator: Timothy Andrés Pabon

Unabridged: 11 hr 11 min

Format: Digital Audiobook (DRM Protected)

Published: 04/02/2019

Synopsis

Did the U.S. really “save the world” in World War II? Should black athletes stop protesting and show more gratitude for what America has done for them? Are wars fought to spread freedom and democracy? Or is this all fake news? American Exceptionalism and American Innocence examines the stories we’re told that lead us to think that the U.S. is a force for good in the world, regardless of slavery, the genocide of indigenous people, and the more than a century’s worth of imperialist war that the U.S. has wrought on the planet. Sirvent and Haiphong detail just what Captain America’s shield tells us about the pretensions of U.S. foreign policy, how Angelina Jolie and Bill Gates engage in humanitarian imperialism, and why the Broadway musical Hamilton is a monument to white supremacy.

About Roberto Sirvent

Roberto Sirvent, Ph. D., J.D., is a Professor of Political and Social Ethics at Hope International University in Fullerton, California.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kevin

How American Liberals perpetuate systemic violence abroad and at home… Preamble: --While this book does not explicitly set out to critique "liberals"/the Democratic Party, a major theme is how it takes both US political parties to define and re-enforce the boundaries of debate (paraphrasing Chomsky; a......more

Goodreads review by David

Life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness - plus slavery and genocide. Those are the founding principles of the USA, as Roberto Sirvent and Danny Haiphong do their utmost to explain in American Exceptionalism and American Innocence. American exceptionalism means anything the US does is excusable, beca......more

Goodreads review by Ailith

Cathartic. This is an anti-imperialist lens that focuses on taking off the blanket of willful ignorance (innocence) of our crimes, and the belief in our blatant lies about intentions (exceptionalism). It's not so much about the history of any individual story as the overall trend, otherwise the thing......more

Goodreads review by Randall

Jefferson didn’t want slaves emancipated and warned emancipation “would threaten U.S. society itself” - thoughts perfect for the Jefferson Memorial. Joy James writes that “emancipation is given by the dominant” while “freedom is taken and created.” Not yet finished, Jefferson added, “Blacks being un......more

Goodreads review by Carlos

This important work of Marxist sociology and history relentlessly unpicks the foundational myths of the United States which, with their accompanying ideology of exceptionalism and innocence, act as a “cultural drug” that serves to pacify and deceive the masses. Picking up the historical baton from Ho......more

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