America Ascendant: The Rise of American Exceptionalism

President Franklin D. Roosevelt organized an extraordinary partnership between the US government and America's media outlets to communicate to the reluctant and isolationist American public the nature of the threat that World War II posed to the nation and the world. The coalition's aim was to promote the concept of American exceptionalism and use it to galvanize the public for the government's cause.



America Ascendant details the efforts of many prominent individuals and officials to harnes...