Building on de Tocqueville's concept of American exceptionalism, this collection of essays, contributed by some of the nation's top scholars and thinkers, takes on the weighty task of sizing up America in a way its people and others can comprehend. Far more than simple history, they outline the current state of American institutions and policies—from the legal system to marriage to the military to the Drug War—and anticipate where these are headed in the future.

Peter H. Schuck is the Simeon E. Baldwin Professor of Law at Yale Law School. He is the author of many books, including Targeting in Social Problems.
James Q.Wilson, a former president of the American Political Science Association, was for twenty-six years the Shattuck Professor of Government at Harvard and then for twelve years the Collins Professor of Management and Public Policy at UCLA.

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