| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.3

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Book Review

Hating America: A History. By Barry Rubin and Judith Colp Rubin. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. xvi, 307 pp. $29.95, isbn 0-19-516773-2.)

It will probably be a shock to many readers to learn how many distinguished European thinkers, writers, artists, and intellectuals harbored extremely negative views of the United States during much of its existence. The more one reads those and other manifestations of anti-Americanism—abundantly and instructively gathered in this volume—the more difficult it becomes to take the position that it is merely a response to the evident failings of U.S. policies or American social institutions. At the same time it is possible and necessary to distinguish between the predispositions, stereotypes, and vilifications anti-Americanism entails and sober, well-grounded critiques of U.S. policies and of the defects in American society. Wherever one draws the line between well-founded criticism and promiscuous disparagement, there is little doubt that hostility toward the United States has greatly increased since it has become the sole superpower and that there has been further increase in such sentiments following 9/11.

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