Spring 2008

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When a reporter for the German magazine Stern glimpses in Barack Obama “the ancient American tale of one single hero in the fight against the system,” or when an Arab poll respondent says he despises predatory U.S. leaders but admires ordinary Americans, both are drawing from a stock of archetypal images that dates back two centuries. The American Revolution might have cut ties with the British Empire, but it did not rid the U.S. of any number of opinionated foreigners ...
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