Lessons from America: An Exploration by Richard Rose
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Overview: Two themes have always dominated the dialogue between Americans and Europeans. The first is America’s uniqueness; no place else on earth can compare with the great colossus of the New World. The second is that America is a forerunner of what European societies will become tomorrow. While the former idea presupposes that America is inimitable, the latter assumes that it inevitably foretokens the fate of all Western societies. The two assumptions are mutually exclusive: both cannot be true. Yet the very familiarity and plausibility of each is a reminder of how greatly our thinking about America is based upon contradictions, rather than upon logical analysis or the sceptical commonsense of a Philadelphia
philosophe.
The object of this book is deceptively simple: to consider to what extent American experience is unique to the United States, and to what extent it provides a model for the rest of the world. In so far as the American experience is not unique, then Europeans may, by looking at America, foresee what their own country will be like tomorrow. In this uncertain age, few are likely to be so confident that anything is inevitable. If Europeans see things in American society that they do not wish to follow, then America can provide lessons in how to avoid problems of post-industrial society. Alternatively, Europeans can use American examples to prod their fellow citizens to abandon obsolescent ways, thus hastening the day when the fruits as well as the thorns of post-industrial life spread across the Atlantic.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Educational
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