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American Exceptionalism and American Innocence: A People’s History of Fake News, from the Revolutionary War to the War on Terror
by Roberto Sirvent and Danny Haiphong
(Skyhorse, £19.99)
THIS important work of Marxist sociology and history relentlessly unpicks the foundational myths of the United States which, with their accompanying ideology of exceptionalism and innocence, act as a “cultural drug” that serves to pacify and deceive the masses.
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