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Why America is such a hard sell : beyond pride and prejudice
- Title
- Why America is such a hard sell : beyond pride and prejudice / Juliana Geran Pilon.
- Author
- Pilon, Juliana Geran.
- Publication
- Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, [2007], ©2007.
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- Description
- xviii, 285 pages; 24 cm
- Subjects
- Pride and vanity > Political aspects > United States
- Globalization > Political aspects > United States
- Multiculturalism > United States
- Anti-Americanism
- Prejudices > Political aspects > United States
- United States > Foreign relations > Philosophy
- Diplomacy
- United States > Foreign relations > 2001-2009
- National characteristics, American
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Preface : on a personal note -- Why America is such a hard sell : an overview -- Introduction : America's mixed legacy -- 1. How can you tell? -- 2. It's them, not us -- 3. Consumerism Uber Alles -- 4. Empire lite and not-so-lite -- 5. Watch out for the entertainment -- 6. The nonstarter solutions : more pride and prejudice -- 7. History of a paradox -- 8. Self-exiled to self-sufficiency -- 9. Exceptionalist nationalism -- 10. Too proud to play hardball at the UN -- 11. Strategic public diplomacy : for dummies? -- 12. The price of pride -- 13. Why learn about others? -- 14. No place like home -- 15. Biased against intelligence -- 16. Soft power for softies? -- 17. Misreading Machiavelli -- 18. Speakers in chief define the new world -- 19. Presidential highlights from the three world wars -- 20. Post-Cold War semantic impasse -- 21. Is the United States really such a "hard sell"? -- 22. Global strategic outreach : doing it right -- 23. False sensibility vs. true sense -- 24. The five (or six) basic rules of global strategic outreach -- Conclusion : not for sale.
- ISBN
- 0742551482 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780742551480 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0742551490 (paper : alk. paper)
- 9780742551497 (paper : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2006028327
- 9780742551480
- 9780742551497
- OCLC
- OCM71241911
- 71241911
- SCSB-5313025
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries