[3] The authors said they believed anti-Americanism usually concerns US government policies, and the world had always "held Americans in higher esteem than America".

[3] Kohut and Stokes relied on a contemporary assessment of Alexis de Tocqueville's ambivalent conclusion about American exceptionalism.

The Importance of America's relationship with other nations and their reactions to global events mean they are unwilling for multinational efforts and institutions, and compared with other countries' citizens they pay less attention to them.

This was backed up by Geran Pilon who believed the book was well-documented as it showed the growth of the US isolation depth through analytics and reporting.

[5] Another review, by Walter Russell Mead, suggested that Kohut and Stokes identify an enduring problem: when a significant number of individuals are opposed to the majority of the US population.

Mead agreed that Americans tended to be more effective than most people in their ability to shape their own lives, as well as acceptance of the use of government action in solving world problems.