There is much heated rhetoric about the widening gulf between
Europe and America. According to the American right, Europeans are
lazy, defeatist and irreligious, while Americans are
entrepreneurial, optimistic, and pious. And according to Europeans,
America is harsh, dominated by the market, crime-ridden, violent,
and sharp-elbowed. But are the US and Europe so different? Peter
Baldwin, one of the world's leading historians of comparative
social policy, thinks not, and in this bracingly argued but
remarkably informed polemic, he lays out how similar the two
continents really are. Drawing on the latest evidence from sources
such as the United Nations, the World Bank, IMF, and other
international organizations, Baldwin offers a fascinating
comparison of the United States and Europe, looking at the latest
statistics on the economy, crime, health care, education and
culture, religion, the environment, and much more. It is a book
filled with surprising revelations. For most categories of crime,
for instance, America is safe and peaceful by European standards.
But the biggest surprise is that, though there are many differences
between America and Europe, in almost all cases, these differences
are no greater than the differences among European nations. Europe
and the US are, in fact, part of a common, big-tent grouping.
America is not Sweden, for sure. But nor is Italy Sweden, nor
France, nor even Germany. And who says that Sweden is Europe?
Anymore than Vermont is America? Writing with flair and armed with
an impressive stock of evidence, Baldwin paints a truly eye-opening
portrait of Europe and America. Anyone interested in American
foreign relations-or simply curious about American and European
society-will want to read this revelatory volume.
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