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The idea of American exceptionalism in its best and worst forms.
Art Remillard talks with theologian and historian John Wilsey about his new book American Exceptionalism and Civil Religion: Reassessing the History of an Idea. Wilsey is Assistant Professor of History and Christian Apologetics at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Houston.