Seymour Martin Lipset is professor emeritus of sociology at George Mason University. Among his books are American Exceptionalism: A Double-Edged Sword, North American Cultures: Values and Institutions in Canada and the United States, Political Man: The Social Bases of Politics, and Rebellion in the University.

"Stimulating insights into historical problems viewed in the context of present-day analogues." - Oscar Handlin, American Historical Review "One of the few most important books by an American sociologist to appear in a long time.... An impressive and very challenging book." - Talcott Parsons, Journal of Sociology

• 1: America as a New Nation; 1: Establishing National Authority; 2: Formulating a National Identity; 2: Stability in the Midst of Change; 3: A Changing American Character?; 4: Religion and American Values; 5: Trade Unions and the American Value System; III: Democracy in Comparative Perspective; 6: Values and Democratic Stability; 7: Value Differences, Absolute or Relative: The English-Speaking Democracies; 8: Values, Social Character, and the Democratic Polity; 9: Party Systems and the Representation of Social Groups; 10: Epilogue: Some Personal Views on Equality, Inequality, and Comparative Social Science

Seymour Martin Lipset is professor emeritus of sociology at George Mason University. Among his books are American Exceptionalism: A Double-Edged Sword, North American Cultures: Values and Institutions in Canada and the United States, Political Man: The Social Bases of Politics, and Rebellion in the University.

"Stimulating insights into historical problems viewed in the context of present-day analogues." - Oscar Handlin, American Historical Review "One of the few most important books by an American sociologist to appear in a long time.... An impressive and very challenging book." - Talcott Parsons, Journal of Sociology

• 1: America as a New Nation; 1: Establishing National Authority; 2: Formulating a National Identity; 2: Stability in the Midst of Change; 3: A Changing American Character?; 4: Religion and American Values; 5: Trade Unions and the American Value System; III: Democracy in Comparative Perspective; 6: Values and Democratic Stability; 7: Value Differences, Absolute or Relative: The English-Speaking Democracies; 8: Values, Social Character, and the Democratic Polity; 9: Party Systems and the Representation of Social Groups; 10: Epilogue: Some Personal Views on Equality, Inequality, and Comparative Social Science

Seymour Martin Lipset is professor emeritus of sociology at George Mason University. Among his books are American Exceptionalism: A Double-Edged Sword, North American Cultures: Values and Institutions in Canada and the United States, Political Man: The Social Bases of Politics, and Rebellion in the University.

"Stimulating insights into historical problems viewed in the context of present-day analogues." - Oscar Handlin, American Historical Review "One of the few most important books by an American sociologist to appear in a long time.... An impressive and very challenging book." - Talcott Parsons, Journal of Sociology

• 1: America as a New Nation; 1: Establishing National Authority; 2: Formulating a National Identity; 2: Stability in the Midst of Change; 3: A Changing American Character?; 4: Religion and American Values; 5: Trade Unions and the American Value System; III: Democracy in Comparative Perspective; 6: Values and Democratic Stability; 7: Value Differences, Absolute or Relative: The English-Speaking Democracies; 8: Values, Social Character, and the Democratic Polity; 9: Party Systems and the Representation of Social Groups; 10: Epilogue: Some Personal Views on Equality, Inequality, and Comparative Social Science